Discovery BoxGenesis 23:13 
Context23:13 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
Context34:12 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!”
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.”
