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10 You may live[a] among us, and the land will be open to you.[b] Live in it, travel freely in it,[c] and acquire property in it.”

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  1. Genesis 34:10 tn The imperfect verbal form has a permissive nuance here.
  2. Genesis 34:10 tn Heb “before you.”
  3. Genesis 34:10 tn The verb seems to carry the basic meaning “travel about freely,” although the substantival participial form refers to a trader (see E. A. Speiser, “The Verb sḥr in Genesis and Early Hebrew Movements,” BASOR 164 [1961]: 23-28); cf. NIV, NRSV “trade in it.”