12Make the price for the bride and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I'll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the girl as my wife."


In Context

9 Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.

10 You can settle among us; the land is open to you. Live in it, trade in it, and acquire property in it."

11 Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask.

12 Make the price for the bride and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I'll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the girl as my wife."

13 Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob's sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor.

14 They said to them, "We can't do such a thing; we can't give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us.

Genesis 34:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

34:12Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

34:12Raise the dowery,, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

34:12Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

34:12Impose on me very much as dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me; but give me the maiden as wife.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

34:12Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

34:12Ask me never so much dower and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me: but give me the damsel for a wife.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

34:12Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

34:12multiply on me exceedingly dowry and gift, and I give as ye say unto me, and give to me the young person for a wife.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

34:12Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as you shall say to me: but give me the damsel to wife.