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Genesis 34:10
New English Translation
Genesis 34:10
New English Translation
10 You may live[a] among us, and the land will be open to you.[b] Live in it, travel freely in it,[c] and acquire property in it.”
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- Genesis 34:10 tn The imperfect verbal form has a permissive nuance here.
- Genesis 34:10 tn Heb “before you.”
- Genesis 34:10 tn The verb seems to carry the basic meaning “travel about freely,” although the substantival participial form refers to a trader (see E. A. Speiser, “The Verb sḥr in Genesis and Early Hebrew Movements,” BASOR 164 [1961]: 23-28); cf. NIV, NRSV “trade in it.”
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