Genesis 34:12

You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, ¹  and I’ll give ²  whatever you ask ³  of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”

Ge 24:53; Ge 29:18; Ge 31:41; Ex 22:16,17; De 22:28,29; 1Sa 18:25-27; 2Sa 3:14; Ho 3:2; Mt 14:17

¹ 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.

² tn The cohortative expresses Shechem’s resolve to have Dinah as his wife.

³ tn Heb “say.”