Genesis 34:12

34:12 You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive,28 and I’ll give29 whatever you ask30 of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”

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28	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.
29	tn The cohortative expresses Shechem’s resolve to have Dinah as his wife.
30	tn Heb “say.”