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Genesis 34:12
New English Translation
Genesis 34:12
New English Translation
12 You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive,[a] and I’ll give[b] whatever you ask[c] of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”
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- Genesis 34:12 tn Heb “Make very great upon me the bride price and gift.” The imperatives are used in a rhetorical manner. Shechem’s point is that he will pay the price, no matter how expensive it might be.
- Genesis 34:12 tn The cohortative expresses Shechem’s resolve to have Dinah as his wife.
- Genesis 34:12 tn Heb “say.”
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