Catholic Public Domain Version

Genesis 34:9-14 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

9. And let us celebrate marriages with one with another. Give us your daughters, and receive our daughters.

10. And live with us. The land is in your power: cultivate, trade, and possess it."

11. And Shechem even said to her father and to her brothers: "May I find favor in your sight, and whatever you will appoint, I will give.

12. Increase the dowry, and request gifts, and I will freely bestow what you will ask. Only give me this girl as a wife."

13. The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father with deceit, being enraged at the rape of their sister:

14. "We are not able to do what you ask, nor to give our sister to an uncircumcised man. For us, this is unlawful and abominable.