34:11 Then Shechem said to Dinah’s 4 father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your sight, and whatever you require of me 5 I’ll give. 6
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.”
4 tn Heb “her”; the referent (Dinah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “whatever you say.”
6 tn Or “pay.”