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Genesis 34:8

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And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.

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  1. Genesis 34:6

    And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

  2. Genesis 34:7

    And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done.

  3. Genesis 34:9

    And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

  4. Genesis 34:10

    And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

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