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Genesis 34:16

Genesis 34:16
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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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Then will we give our daughters unto you,.... Meaning Dinah, whom they call their daughter, Gen 34:17; because she was the daughter of their family, and because they were entreating in the name of…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Genesis 34:1-31

- Dinah’s Dishonor This chapter records the rape of Dinah and the revenge of her brothers. Gen 34:1-5 Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land. The Jewish doctors of a later period fix the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Genesis 34:6-17

Jacob's sons, when they heard of the injury done to Dinah, showed a very great resentment of it, influenced perhaps rather by jealousy for the honour of their family than by a sense of virtue. Many…