Genesis 34:9
Context34:9 Intermarry with us. 1 Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves. 2
Genesis 34:16
Context34:16 Then we will give 3 you our daughters to marry, 4 and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.


[34:9] 1 tn Heb “form marriage alliances with us.”
[34:9] 2 tn Heb “Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.” In the translation the words “let…marry” and “as wives” are supplied for clarity.
[34:16] 3 tn The perfect verbal form with the vav (ו) consecutive introduces the apodosis of the conditional sentence.
[34:16] 4 tn The words “to marry” (and the words “as wives” in the following clause) are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.