16 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
16 Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We'll settle among you and become one people with you.
16 Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.
16 Then we will freely exchange daughters in marriage and make ourselves at home among you and become one big, happy family.
16 then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us; and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
16 then we will give you our daughters, and we'll take your daughters for ourselves. We will live among you and become one people.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Genesis 34:16
Commentary on Genesis 34:1-19
(Read Genesis 34:1-19)
Young persons, especially females, are never so safe and well off as under the care of pious parents. Their own ignorance, and the flattery and artifices of designing, wicked people, who are ever laying snares for them, expose them to great danger. They are their own enemies if they desire to go abroad, especially alone, among strangers to true religion. Those parents are very wrong who do not hinder their children from needlessly exposing themselves to danger. Indulged children, like Dinah, often become a grief and shame to their families. Her pretence was, to see the daughters of the land, to see how they dressed, and how they danced, and what was fashionable among them; she went to see, yet that was not all, she went to be seen too. She went to get acquaintance with the Canaanites, and to learn their ways. See what came of Dinah's gadding. The beginning of sin is as the letting forth of water. How great a matter does a little fire kindle! We should carefully avoid all occasions of sin and approaches to it.