Teks -- Genesis 34:12 (NET)

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

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Gen 34:12 - Ask me never so much dowry and gift

The gift refers to the presents made at betrothal, both to the bride elect and her relations (compare Gen 24:53), the dowry to a suitable settlement upon her.

Clarke: Gen 34:12 - Ask me never so much dowry

Ask me never so much dowry - See Clarke on Gen 29:20 (note), etc. See the law relative to this, Exo 22:16, Exo 22:17.

TSK: Gen 34:12 - Ask me // dowry

Ask me : On the practice of purchasing wives, Deut. Lam. Roque says, ""Properly speaking, a young man who would marry must purchase his wife; and fathers among the Arabs are never so happy as when they have many daughters. They form part of the riches of the house. Accordingly, when a young man would treat with a person whose daughter he is inclined to marry, he says to him, ‘ Will you give me your daughter for fifty sheep, for six camels, or for a dozen cows?’ according to the rank of her family, and the circumstances of him who desires to marry her."

dowry : Gen 24:53, Gen 29:18, Gen 31:41; Exo 22:16, Exo 22:17; Deu 22:28, Deu 22:29; 1Sa 18:25-27; 2Sa 3:14; Hos 3:2; Mat 14:17

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Gen 34:12 - Dowry // gift

Dowry to her for her portion, according to the ancient custom of men’ s buying their wives; of which see Exo 22:17 ; and

gift to you, either for reparation of the past injury, or in testimony of my respect to you, and desire of her, as Gen 24:53 .

Haydock: Gen 34:12 - Dowry // Gifts

Dowry for Dina. ---

Gifts for her parents and brothers, chap. xxiv. 53. (Calmet)

Gill: Gen 34:12 - Ask me never so much dowry and gift // and I will give according as ye shall say unto me // but give me the damsel to wife

Ask me never so much dowry and gift,.... Or "multiply them exceedingly" ⁱ, fix them at as high a rate as may be thought fit; the "dowry" was what a man gave to a woman at her marriage; for in those times and countries, instead of a man having a portion with his wife, as with us in our times, he gave one to his wife, or to her parents for her; and especially in after times this was used, and became a law in Israel, in the case of a vitiated virgin, see Exo 22:16; and "the gift" was either of jewels and clothes to the women, or of such like precious things to her brethren and friends, see Gen 24:53,

and I will give according as ye shall say unto me; determine among yourselves whatever shall be the dowry and gift, and it shall be punctually observed:

but give me the damsel to wife; only agree to that, and I care not what is required of me.