Genesis 23:13

23:13 and said to Ephron in their hearing, “Hear me, if you will. I pay ¹  to you the price ²  of the field. Take it from me so that I may ³  bury my dead there.”

Genesis 34:12

34:12 You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, ⁴  and I’ll give ⁵  whatever you ask ⁶  of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”

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¹ tn Heb “give.”

² tn Heb “silver.”

³ tn After the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction expresses purpose or result.

⁴ 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.

⁵ tn The cohortative expresses Shechem’s resolve to have Dinah as his wife.

⁶ tn Heb “say.”