World English Bible
"Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.""
— Genesis 34:12, World English Bible
“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.”
“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. ”
“You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, and I’ll give whatever you ask of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!””
“Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.”
“However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.”
“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.”
Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."
Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;