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Genesis 34:9

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And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
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  1. Deuteronomy 7:3Rank 1 from verse 9
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    3Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

  2. Genesis 19:14Rank 2 from verse 9
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    14And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

  3. Genesis 24:3Rank 3 from verse 9
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    3And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

  4. Genesis 26:34–35Rank 4 from verse 9
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    34¶ And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

    35Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

  5. Genesis 27:46Rank 5 from verse 9
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    46And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

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Genesis 34:9

COMBINED MEANING

make

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To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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us

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The first-person plural object pronoun, referring to the speaker together with one or more others as recipients or objects of an action or relation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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take

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To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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34:6¶ And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

34:7And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done.

34:8And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.

34:9And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

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34:10And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

34:11And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

34:12Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

34:13And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:

34:14And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:

34:15But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;

34:16Then 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.

34:17But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

34:18And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.

34:19And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.

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