Text -- Genesis 34:10 (NET)

34:10 You may live among us, and the land will be open to you. Live in it, travel freely in it, and acquire property in it.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Gen 34:10

¹ tn The imperfect verbal form has a permissive nuance here.

² tn Heb “before you.”

³ tn The verb seems to carry the basic meaning “travel about freely,” although the substantival participial form refers to a trader (see E. A. Speiser, “The Verb sh£r in Genesis and Early Hebrew Movements,” BASOR 164 [1961]: 23-28); cf. NIV, NRSV “trade in it.”