Genesis 34:23

WEB

Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."

KJV

Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

Commentary

Shall not their cattle, and their substance, and every beast of theirs, be ours?.... Which would in course come into their families in proces s of time, by intermarrying with them, or, being more numerous and powerful than they, could seize upon them when they pleased, and take all they had: thus they argue from the profit and advantage that would accrue to them by admitting them among them, upon their terms; and this argument, taken from worldly interest, they knew would have great influence upon them: only let us consent unto them; in the affair of circumcision: and they will dwell with us; and what by trading with them, and marrying among them, all their wealth and riches will come into our hands.