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You shall dwell with us: and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."
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A Generous Proposal
Commentators emphasize that Hamor's offer was remarkably generous and comprehensive. He invited Jacob's family not just to live nearby as sojourners, but to become full inhabitants with the right to choose their land, engage in commerce, and purchase property for themselves and their descendants. Scholar John Gill even describes the proposal as "honourable and generous."
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Genesis
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18th Century
Presbyterian
This chapter records the rape of Dinah and the revenge of her brothers.
(Genesis 34:1–5)
Dinah went out to see the daught…
19th Century
Anglican
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29).
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall dwell with us . Peaceably and quietly, not as sojourners only, but as inhabitants:
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