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Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
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An Offer of Assimilation
Commentators explain that Hamor's proposal for intermarriage was a comprehensive offer for a political and economic alliance. He invited Jacob's family to become one people with the Shechemites, sharing land, trade, and property rights, presenting it as a way to make full amends for the assault on Dinah.
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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 make ye marriages with us There was no objection on their side, it lay on the other; Abraham's servant was charg…
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Young people, especially females, are never safer or better off than under the care of pious parents. Their own ignorance, and the flattery and dec…
