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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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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And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
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And ye shall dwell with us; and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.'
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Passages linked to Genesis 34:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 13:9 Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
- Genesis 20:15 Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”
- Genesis 42:34 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’ ”
- Genesis 47:27 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
- Genesis 34:21-23 “These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters. Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised. Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 34:10 And ye shall dwell with us: and…
Gen 34:10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
Ver. 10. And ye shall dwell with us, &c.] Thus the world tempts the saints, by offer of profits, pleasures, and preferments. Sed surdo cantilenam. For they answer the world, as here, "We,cannot do this thing"; {Gen 34:14} or, as the children of Israel bespake the king of Edom, "Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields of profit, or vineyards of pleasure, &c.; we will go by the king’s highway," chalked unto us in the Holy Scriptures: we will not turn to the right hand, or to the left, for any allurement or affrightment of thine, "until we have passed thy borders". {Num 20:17}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Before you, i.e. in your power, to dwell where…
Before you, i.e. in your power, to dwell where you please, and to have the same rights and privileges in it which we enjoy. See Gen 20:15.
Get you possessions therein; or, take possession in it, i.e. in any vacant part of it; use it for pasture or tillage, as you think good, and take the benefit to yourselves.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And ye shall dwell with us,..... Peaceably and quietly,…
And ye shall dwell with us,..... Peaceably and quietly, not as sojourners only, but as inhabitants:
and the land shall be before you; to choose what part of it they pleased to dwell in, and which they should have in their own power and possession:
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dwell and trade you therein; in any sort of traffic and commerce the land would admit of, and they should best choose:
and get you possessions therein; buy houses and land, and enjoy them, they and their posterity; these are the arguments used by Hamor to gain the consent of Jacob and his family that his son might marry Dinah; and the proposals are honourable and generous.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Gen 34:10. The land shall be before you —…
Gen 34:10. The land shall be before you — That is, in your power, to dwell where you please, and to have the same rights and privileges in it which we have. Get you possessions therein — Or take possession in it, that is, in any vacant part of it: use it for pasture or tillage, as you think good, and take the benefit to yourselves.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Command, or you are at liberty to purchase and…
Command, or you are at liberty to purchase and till it as you please. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (10) Ye shall dwell with us.—Hamor proposes that Jacob’s…
(10) Ye shall dwell with us.—Hamor proposes that Jacob’s family shall abandon their nomad life, and settle among the Hivites. and trade with them, and get possessions, not merely of cattle and movable goods, but of immovable property. He wished the two clans to coalesce into one community.
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