Genesis 34:23 Parallel Translations

Won't their livestock, their personal property, and all their animals be ours? We only need to agree to do this for them. Then they'll live with us."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

ASV:

Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

BBE:

Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.

DBY:

Their cattle, and their possessions, and every beast of theirs, shall they not be ours? only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.

ERV:

Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

JPS:

Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.'

WBS:

Will not their cattle, and their substance, and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.

WEB:

Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."

YLT:

their cattle, and their substance, and all their beasts -- are they not ours? only let us consent to them, and they dwell with us.'

Genesis 34:23 Cross References

XREF:

Genesis 34:22 "Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised.

Genesis 34:24 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

34:23 [Shall] not {h} their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs [be] ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
(h) Thus they do not lack any form of perversion, who prefer their own convenience before the common good.

WES:

34:23 Shall not their cattle and their substance be ours? - They observed that Jacob's sons were industrious, thriving people, and promised themselves and their neighbours advantage by an alliance with them: it would improve ground and trade, and bring money into their country.

MHC:

34:20-31 The Shechemites submitted to the sacred rite, only to serve a turn, to please their prince, and to enrich themselves, and it was just with God to bring punishment upon them. As nothing secures us better than true religion, so nothing exposes us more than religion only pretended to. But Simeon and Levi were most unrighteous. Those who act wickedly, under the pretext of religion, are the worst enemies of the truth, and harden the hearts of many to destruction. The crimes of others form no excuse for us. Alas! how one sin leads on to another, and, like flames of fire, spread desolation in every direction! Foolish pleasures lead to seduction; seduction produces wrath; wrath thirsts for revenge; the thirst of revenge has recourse to treachery; treachery issues in murder; and murder is followed by other lawless actions. Were we to trace the history of unlawful commerce between the sexes, we should find it, more than any other sin, ending in blood.

CONC:

Agree Agreement Animals Beast Beasts Cattle Consent Dwell Goods Livestock Ours Possessions Property Settle Substance Theirs Won't

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