^34:12You 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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Footnotes

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

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Ask me for as great a bride-price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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 young woman as my wife.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Demand of me a high compensation and gift; I’ll give you whatever you ask me. Just give the girl to be my wife!”

NLTNew Living Translation

No matter what dowry or gift you demand, I will gladly pay it—just give me the girl as my wife.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Make the bride price and gift as high as you like; I will give what you say to me. But give me the girl as a wife.”

KJV 1900King James Version

Ask 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.

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