Genesis 34:20-21

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Da kamen sie nun, Hamor und sein Sohn Sichem, zum Tor ihrer Stadt und redeten mit den Bürgern der Stadt und sprachen:

Der Stadttor war, wie wir schon bei Lot gesehen haben, der Ort an dem die Stadt sich traf. Vergleichbar mit unseren "Stadtmitte" heutzutage. Sie wollen jetzt also die Stadt überzeugen, bei dem Plan mitzumachen. 

That was the place where every public communication was made; and in the ready obsequious submission of the people to this measure we see an evidence either of the extraordinary affection for the governing family, or of the abject despotism of the East, where the will of a chief is an absolute command.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, und David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997), 36.


Diese Leute sind friedsam bei uns; lasst sie im Lande wohnen und Handel treiben; das Land ist weit genug für sie. Wir wollen uns ihre Töchter zu Frauen nehmen und ihnen unsere Töchter geben.

Was sind also die Argumente, die sie hervorbringen: Frieden, Wirtschaftlichkeit und Erweiterung des Volkes durch Heirat. Wir erinnern uns, dass es sich hier um einen hinterlistigen Plan der Brüder handelt. Genau diese drei Faktoren stehen hier auf dem Spiel. 

The father and son speak in one accord (lit., "they spoke to the men ...," v. 20b). First, they disarm potential worries by reporting on the Israelites' harmless disposition (v. 21a). "Friendly" (šĕlēmîm, pl. adj.) is related to the word group š–l–m, whose semantic range is broad, indicating completion, peace, and well-being. ... The wealth that the Jacobites exhibited would give the Hivites an opulent, new market. ... That they did not unveil the details of their earlier negotiations with the brothers has often prompted commentators to impugn them with deceptive tactics. For example, Hamor and Shechem omit the personal reason (Dinah) for the treaty, and they do not admit that the Israelites also expect to receive financial advantages out of the arrangements. But the general picture the narrative gives us of the Shechemites is that they negotiate fairly while Jacob's sons do not. This suggests that the report of their presentation to the city is not meant to show them untrustworthy men. It may be that the author wants the reader to assume that the audience knows the essential elements of the prior negotiations and that a rehearsal of every feature would be unnecessary in telling the account.

K. A. Mathews, Genesis 11:27–50:26, Bd. 1B of The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005), 603-604.

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