Lexham English Bible

Genesis 34:9-14 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

9. Make marriages with us. Give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.

10. You shall dwell with us and the land shall be before you; settle and trade in it, and acquire property in it.”

11. Then Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will do.

12. Make the bride price and gift as high as you like; I will give what you say to me. But give me the girl as a wife.”

13. Then the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor speaking deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

14. And they said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that is a disgrace for us.