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Genesis 34:4

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And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
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  1. Judges 14:2Rank 1 from verse 4
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    2And 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.

  2. 2 Samuel 13:13Rank 2 from verse 4
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    13And 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.

  3. Genesis 21:21Rank 3 from verse 4
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    21And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

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Genesis 34:4

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spake

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The past tense of speak: uttered or expressed words, addressed someone, or communicated a matter in words.

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father

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Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.

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get

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To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of, by almost any means.

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3And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.

4And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.

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5And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.

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