Genesis 34:16
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New International Version (©2011)
Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We'll settle among you and become one people with you.

New Living Translation (©2007)
then we will give you our daughters, and we'll take your daughters for ourselves. We will live among you and become one people.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will live with you and become one people.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then we will give you our daughters, take your daughters for ourselves, live with you, and become one people.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then we'll give our daughters to you and take your daughters for ourselves, live among you, and be as a united people.

NET Bible (©2006)
Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then we'll give our daughters to you and take yours for ourselves, and we'll live with you and become one people.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

American King James Version
Then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

American Standard Version
then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then will we mutually give and take your daughters, and ours: and we will dwell with you, and will be one people:

Darby Bible Translation
then will we give our daughters to you, and take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and be one people.

English Revised Version
then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

World English Bible
then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

Young's Literal Translation
then we have given our daughters to you, and your daughters we take to ourselves, and we have dwelt with you, and have become one people;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

34:1-19 Young persons, especially females, are never so safe and well off as under the care of pious parents. Their own ignorance, and the flattery and artifices of designing, wicked people, who are ever laying snares for them, expose them to great danger. They are their own enemies if they desire to go abroad, especially alone, among strangers to true religion. Those parents are very wrong who do not hinder their children from needlessly exposing themselves to danger. Indulged children, like Dinah, often become a grief and shame to their families. Her pretence was, to see the daughters of the land, to see how they dressed, and how they danced, and what was fashionable among them; she went to see, yet that was not all, she went to be seen too. She went to get acquaintance with the Canaanites, and to learn their ways. See what came of Dinah's gadding. The beginning of sin is as the letting forth of water. How great a matter does a little fire kindle! We should carefully avoid all occasions of sin and approaches to it.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then will we give our daughters unto you,.... Meaning Dinah, whom they call their daughter, Genesis 34:17; because she was the daughter of their family, and because they were entreating in the name of their father, and in conformity to the language used by those they were treating with, Genesis 34:9,

and we will take your daughters to us; in marriage for wives:

and we will dwell with you; not as sojourners but as fellow citizens:

and we will become one people; being so nearly related by marriage, and professing one religion, alike submitting to circumcision, which was the distinguished badge of Abraham's seed.

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The Revenge of Dinah's Brothers
…15But in this will we consent to you: If you will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised; 16Then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. 17But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone. …

Genesis 34:15 We will enter into an agreement with you on one condition only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males.
Genesis 34:17 But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we'll take our sister and go."