John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 34:9

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And make ye marriages with us, etc.] 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, (<012403>Genesis 24:3 28:1); 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, (<050703>Deuteronomy 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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