World English Bible
Genesis 34:12
“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.”
Verse in context — Genesis 34
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You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.
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Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
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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.
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The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
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and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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