THEOSISJohn Chrysostom
As Shechem is consumed by a deep affection for a young woman, he urges that she be given to him in marriage, desiring to unite with our people.
Genesis 34:9Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters, and take you our daughters.
וְהִֽתְחַתְּנ֖וּ אֹתָ֑נוּ בְּנֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ תִּתְּנוּ־לָ֔נוּ וְאֶת־בְּנֹתֵ֖ינוּ תִּקְח֥וּ לָכֶֽם׃
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Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 7:3Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:
- Gen 24:3That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell:
- Gen 19:14So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.
- Gen 26:34And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hethite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of the same place.
- Gen 26:35And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.
- Gen 27:46And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I choose not to live.
- Gen 6:2The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.