Genesis 34:10

34:10 You may live ¹  among us, and the land will be open to you. ²  Live in it, travel freely in it, ³  and acquire property in it.”

Genesis 34:21

34:21 “These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough ⁴  for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry. ⁵ 

Genesis 34:1

Dinah and the Shechemites

34:1 Now Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went to meet ⁶  the young women ⁷  of the land.

Genesis 10:15

10:15 Canaan was the father of ⁸  Sidon his firstborn, ⁹  Heth, ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 17:4

17:4 He plucked off its topmost shoot;

he brought it to a land of merchants

and planted it in a city of traders.

[34:10]  ¹ tn The imperfect verbal form has a permissive nuance here.

[34:10]  ² tn Heb “before you.”

[34:10]  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.”

[34:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “wide on both hands,” that is, in both directions.

[34:21]  ⁵ tn The words “to marry” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[34:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “went out to see.” The verb “to see,” followed by the preposition בְּ (bÿ), here has the idea of “look over.” The young girl wanted to meet these women and see what they were like.

[34:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “daughters.”

[10:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “fathered.”

[10:15]  ⁹ sn Sidon was the foremost city in Phoenicia; here Sidon may be the name of its founder.

[10:15]  ¹⁰ tn Some see a reference to “Hittites” here (cf. NIV), but this seems unlikely. See the note on the phrase “sons of Heth” in Gen 23:3.