Bible verse
Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We will dwell among you and become one people.
Genesis 34:16 · BSB
The verses around it, from Genesis 34.
12 Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
13 But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.
14 “We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.
15 We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males.
16 Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We will dwell among you and become one people.
17 But if you will not agree to be circumcised, then we will take our sister and go.”
18 Their offer seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.
19 The young man, who was the most respected of all his father’s household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.
20 So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:
KJV
Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
ASV
then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
ERV
then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
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