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Genesis 34:4
And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.
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Genesis 34:4 in other translations
And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
So Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.”
Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”
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In context
1 Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had by Jacob, went out to see the women of that country.
2 And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had connection with her.
3 Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.
4 And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.
5 Now Jacob had word of what Shechem had done to his daughter; but his sons were in the fields with the cattle, and Jacob said nothing till they came.
6 Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, came out to have a talk with Jacob.
7 Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done.
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