Genesis 34:10

34:10 You may live22 among us, and the land will be open to you.23 Live in it, travel freely in it,24 and acquire property in it.”

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22	tn The imperfect verbal form has a permissive nuance here.
23	tn Heb “before you.”
24	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.”