Discovery BoxGenesis 34:9 
Context34:9 Intermarry with us. 1 Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves. 2
Genesis 34:16
Context34:16 Then we will give 3 you our daughters to marry, 4 and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.
1 tn Heb “form marriage alliances with us.”
sn Intermarry with us. This includes the idea of becoming allied by marriage. The incident foreshadows the temptations Israel would eventually face when they entered the promised land (see Deut 7:3; Josh 23:12).
2 tn Heb “Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.” In the translation the words “let…marry” and “as wives” are supplied for clarity.
3 tn The perfect verbal form with the vav (ו) consecutive introduces the apodosis of the conditional sentence.
4 tn The words “to marry” (and the words “as wives” in the following clause) are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.
