Genesis 34:12 Parallel Translations

Set the price I must pay for the bride and the gift I must give her as high as you want. I'll pay exactly what you tell me. Give me the girl as my wife."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

ASV:

Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

BBE:

However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.

DBY:

Impose on me very much as dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me; but give me the maiden as wife.

ERV:

Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

JPS:

Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me; but give me the damsel to wife.'

WBS:

Ask me never so much dower and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me: but give me the damsel for a wife.

WEB:

Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."

YLT:

multiply on me exceedingly dowry and gift, and I give as ye say unto me, and give to me the young person for a wife.'

Genesis 34:12 Cross References

XREF:

Genesis 34:11 Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, "If I find favor in your sight, then I will give whatever you say to me.

Genesis 34:13 But Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

34:1-19 Young persons, especially females, are never so safe and well off as under the care of pious parents. Their own ignorance, and the flattery and artifices of designing, wicked people, who are ever laying snares for them, expose them to great danger. They are their own enemies if they desire to go abroad, especially alone, among strangers to true religion. Those parents are very wrong who do not hinder their children from needlessly exposing themselves to danger. Indulged children, like Dinah, often become a grief and shame to their families. Her pretence was, to see the daughters of the land, to see how they dressed, and how they danced, and what was fashionable among them; she went to see, yet that was not all, she went to be seen too. She went to get acquaintance with the Canaanites, and to learn their ways. See what came of Dinah's gadding. The beginning of sin is as the letting forth of water. How great a matter does a little fire kindle! We should carefully avoid all occasions of sin and approaches to it.

CONC:

Amount Bridal Bride Bride-price Bring Damsel Dower Dowry Exceedingly Gift Girl However I'll Impose Lady Maiden Marriage Multiply Pay Payment Present Whatever Wife

Amount Bridal Damsel Dower Dowry Exceedingly Gift Girl Great However I'll Impose Lady Maiden Marriage Multiply Payment Present Price Whatever Wife Young

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