Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
KJV
And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
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And make ye marriages with us,.... There was no objection on their side, it lay on the other; Abraham's servant was charged by him not to take a wife of the Canaanites to his son Isaac; and the same charge was given Jacob by Isaac,
Gen 24:3
; and therefore Jacob would never agree that his children should marry any of that nation; and marriages with them were afterwards forbidden by the law of Moses,
Deu 7:3
,
and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you; for though at present there were no other daughters in Jacob's family, yet there might be hereafter; and the request is, that for the future there might be intermarriages between them, as would be practicable in a course of time.
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