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Genesis 34:12

World English Bible

Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”

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Genesis 34:12 in other translations

Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

Genesis 34:12 · American Standard Version

Genesis 34:12 in context

  1. 10You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”
  2. 11Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
  3. 12Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”
  4. 13The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
  5. 14and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.