Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.
Jacob's sons, when they heard of the injury done to Dinah, showed a very great resentment of it, influenced perhaps rather by jealousy for the honour of their family than by a sense of virtue. Many are concerned at the shamefulness of sin that never lay to heart the sinfulness of it.
Commenting on Genesis 34:6-17
Then will we give our daughters unto you,.... Meaning Dinah, whom they call their daughter, Gen 34:17; because she was the daughter of their family, and because they were entreating in the name of their father, and in conformity to the language used by those they were treating with, Gen 34:9, and we will take your daughters to us; in marriage for wives: and we...
Gen 34:13-17 Attractive as these offers of the Hivite prince and his son were, they were declined by Jacob’s sons, who had the chief voice in the question of their sister’s marriage (vid., Gen 24:50). And they were quite right; for, by accepting them, they would have violated the sacred call of Israel and his seed, and sacrificed the promises of Jehovah to Mammon.
Commenting on Genesis 34:13-17