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 

[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.