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Parallel GEN 34:9

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BI Gen 34:9 ©

Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clearImportance=normal(All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV)In fact, why don’t you allow us to marry your daughters, and you people could have our daughters to marry,

OET-LVAnd_make_marriages DOM_us daughters_your_all’s you_all_will_give to/for_us and_DOM daughters_our you_all_will_take for_yourselves.

UHBוְ⁠הִֽתְחַתְּנ֖וּ אֹתָ֑⁠נוּ בְּנֹֽתֵי⁠כֶם֙ תִּתְּנוּ־לָ֔⁠נוּ וְ⁠אֶת־בְּנֹתֵ֖י⁠נוּ תִּקְח֥וּ לָ⁠כֶֽם׃
   (və⁠hitḩattə ʼotā⁠nū bənotēy⁠kem tittə-lā⁠nū və⁠ʼet-bənotēy⁠nū tiqḩū lā⁠kem.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULTAnd intermarry with us: Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves,

USTIn fact, let’s allow marriage between our two people groups, so that your daughters can marry our young men and your young men can marry our daughters.


BSBIntermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves.

OEBand intermarry with us. Give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves.

WEBBEMake marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

WMBB (Same as above)

NETIntermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.

LSVand join in marriage with us; you give your daughters to us, and you take our daughters for yourselves,

FBVIn fact we can have more marriages—you can give us your daughters and you can have our daughters.

T4TLet’s make an agreement: You will give your daughters to our young men to be their wives, and we will give our daughters to your young men to be their wives.

LEBMake marriages with us. Give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.

BBEAnd let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

MoffNo Moff GEN book available

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

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

DRAAnd let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters and take you our daughters,

YLTand join ye in marriage with us; your daughters ye give to us, and our daughters ye take to yourselves,

DrbyAnd make marriages with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you.

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

WbstrAnd make ye marriages with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you.

KJB-1769And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
   (And make ye/you_all marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you. )

KJB-1611And make ye mariages with vs, and giue your daughters vnto vs, and take our daughters vnto you.
   (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

BshpsAnd make maryages with vs, and geue your daughters vnto vs, and take our daughters vnto you.
   (And make maryages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.)

GnvaSo make affinitie with vs: giue your daughters vnto vs, and take our daughters vnto you,
   (So make affinitie with us: give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you, )

Cvdlmake frendshipe with vs, geue vs youre doughters, and take ye oure doughters,
   (make frendshipe with us, give us your(pl) daughters, and take ye/you_all our daughters,)

Wycand ioyne we weddyngis to gidere; yyue ye youre douytris to vs,
   (and ioyne we weddyngis together; give ye/you_all your(pl) daughters to us,)

LuthBefreundet euch mit uns; gebet uns eure Töchter und nehmet ihr unsere Töchter
   (Befreundet you with uns; gebet us/to_us/ourselves your Töchter and nehmet you/their/her unsere Töchter)

ClVget jungamus vicissim connubia: filias vestras tradite nobis, et filias nostras accipite,
   (and yungamus vicissim connubia: daughters your tradite nobis, and daughters nostras accipite, )

BrTrand intermarry with us. Give us your daughters, and take our daughters for your sons.

BrLXXκαὶ ἐπιγαμβρεύσασθε ἡμῖν· τὰς θυγατέρας ὑμῶν δότε ἡμῖν, καὶ τὰς θυγατέρας ἡμῶν λάβετε τοῖς υἱοῖς ὑμῶν.
   (kai epigambreusasthe haʸmin; tas thugateras humōn dote haʸmin, kai tas thugateras haʸmōn labete tois huiois humōn. )


TSNTyndale Study Notes:

34:1-31 Once Jacob and his family settled in the land, the Canaanite presence became a threat. This account is a stern warning to the Israelites about the possibility of their being defiled by the Canaanites. The nation of Israel was later commanded not to intermarry or make treaties with them, for they were a corrupt and corrupting people. This chapter implicitly warns against becoming familiar with the way they lived (34:1-2). It also taught Israel that in dealing with the Canaanites, they were to keep their integrity and not use the holy things of the covenant for deception and slaughter (34:13); Israel’s reputation was at stake in the land (34:30). For their ruthless violence, Simeon and Levi were passed over in the birthright blessing (49:5-7).


UTNuW Translation Notes:

בְּנֹֽתֵי⁠כֶם֙ תִּתְּנוּ לָ֔⁠נוּ וְ⁠אֶת בְּנֹתֵ֖י⁠נוּ תִּקְח֥וּ לָ⁠כֶֽם

daughters,your_all's give to/for=us and=DOM daughters,our take for,yourselves

Alternate translation: “so that your daughters will marry our young men and your young men will marry our daughters.” or “so that you allow our young men to marry your daughters and we allow your young men to marry our daughters.”


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Jacob Travels to Southern Canaan

Genesis 32-36

As with many of the stories of the Bible, the events of Jacob’s life are often misunderstood by readers as disjointed pericopes arranged primarily for theological and cultural purposes. Because of this, readers often fail to see that these stories follow a clear geographical progression of the patriarch throughout the land of Canaan. This realistic and coherent geographical framework behind the stories gives strong support to the belief that these stories are authentic, historical accounts of the experiences of Jacob and his ancestors. The overall framework for virtually all of Jacob’s stories is very simple: Jacob is born and raised in southern Canaan but comes into conflict with his twin brother Esau, so he flees to Paddan-aram in Mesopotamia (Genesis 25-28; see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). There he builds a large family and great wealth (Genesis 29-30) and eventually returns to southern Canaan, likely retracing the exact steps he followed when he fled (Genesis 31-35; see also “Jacob Returns to Canaan” map). During this time, Esau moves to the hill country of Seir, likely just south of southern Canaan (“Edom and the Land of Seir” map), and establishes his own family there, giving rise to the nation of Edom (Genesis 36). Though the primary intent of Jacob’s return was no doubt to resettle in Canaan, comments made during his reunion with Esau near Peniel may reveal that he also intended to travel even further to Seir to visit his brother there (Genesis 33:12-14). After crossing from Mahanaim to Peniel in Gilead, Jacob reunites with Esau and settles in Succoth for a time and builds a house for himself and booths for his cattle. He eventually crosses the Jordan River and enters Canaan, stopping first at the ancient city of Shechem. There Jacob’s daughter Dinah is defiled by the son of the region’s leader, and her brothers take revenge by killing all the men of the city. Thus, Jacob is forced to leave, but first he calls upon all his household to purify themselves. He collects their idols and rings and buries them beneath a tree in Shechem. Upon reaching Bethel, Jacob builds an altar and calls it El-bethel. The nurse of Jacob’s mother Rebekah also dies at Bethel and is buried under an oak below the town, leading them to call the place Allon-bacuth (“oak of weeping”). Jacob and his family leave for Bethlehem, but very soon after they start the journey Rachel gives birth to Benjamin and then dies. Jacob buries her along the way, apparently near a place called Zelzah (or perhaps Elzah; see 1 Samuel 10 and “Saul Search for His Donkeys” map). Jacob continues on and camps beyond the tower of Eder, perhaps near Bethlehem, since that seems to have been his original destination. Finally Jacob reaches Mamre and Hebron. Soon after this Isaac dies, and Esau and Jacob bury him. The story of Jacob’s journey ends at Genesis 35, and we are not explicitly told if Jacob traveled even further to Seir. Genesis 36, however, catalogs the descendants of Esau, the Edomites, perhaps indicating that Jacob did indeed fulfill the intentions he stated in Genesis 33:12-14.

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Isaac’s Travels

Genesis 21-35

Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.

BI Gen 34:9 ©