Genesis 34:4 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 34:4

And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.

KJV

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ASV

And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.

WEB

So Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.”

YLT

And Shechem speaketh unto Hamor his father, saying, `Take for me this damsel for a wife.'

DBT

And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Take me this girl as wife.

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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4 verses on the floor

Judges 14:2
And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.
Jeremiah 29:6
Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
2 Samuel 13:13
And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.
Genesis 21:21
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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According to JOSEPHUS, she had been attending a festival; but it is highly probable that she had been often and freely mixing in the society of the place and that she, being a simple, inexperienced, and vain young woman, had been flattered by the attentions of the ruler's son.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

In this place it is more clearly expressed, that Shechem desired to have Dinah for his wife; for his lust was not so unbridled, that when he had defiled, he despised her. Besides, a laudable modesty is shown, since he pays deference to the will of his father; for he does not attempt to form a contract of marriage of his own mind, but leaves this to his father's authority.

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

The perfidious and bloody revenge which Simeon and Levi took upon them, ver. 25-31. Commentary on Chapter 34 1. Dinah was then about fifteen or sixteen years of age when she went out to see the daughters of the land - Probably on some public day.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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