Skip to content

Verse

RBT Translation:
And make-yourselves-bridegrooms1067 את-us. Give to-ourselves אֶת-your built-ones, and our built-ones take to-yourselves.
LITV Translation:
And you intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
ESV Translation:
Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
and intermarry with us. Give us your daughters, and take our daughters for your sons.

Footnotes

1067

Strong’s #2859, chathan. Found in the Hithpa’el form only. To make oneself a “daughter’s husband”, bridegroom. This is derived from the noun chathan (#2860) which means bridegroom. The word is also used of the father-in-law, i.e. Jethro.