Kejadian 31:41

31:41 This was my lot ¹  for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave ²  for you – fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

Kejadian 34:12

34:12 You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, ³  and I’ll give ⁴  whatever you ask ⁵  of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”

[31:41]  ¹ tn Heb “this to me.”

[31:41]  ² tn Heb “served you,” but in this accusatory context the meaning is more “worked like a slave.”

[34:12]  ³ tn Heb “Make very great upon me the bride price and gift.” The imperatives are used in a rhetorical manner. Shechem’s point is that he will pay the price, no matter how expensive it might be.

[34:12]  ⁴ tn The cohortative expresses Shechem’s resolve to have Dinah as his wife.

[34:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “say.”