Genesis 34:9

34:9 Intermarry with us. ¹  Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves. ² 

Genesis 34:16

34:16 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.

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 ⁵  for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry. ⁶ 

[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.

[34:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “wide on both hands,” that is, in both directions.

[34:21]  ⁶ tn The words “to marry” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.