Gen 34:10 | NETfull | STEP | You may live among us, and the land will be open to you. Live in it, travel freely in it, and acquire property in it.”

Genesis 34:10

10 You may live ^{▼▼ The imperfect verbal form has a permissive nuance here.} among us, and the land will be open to you. ^{▼▼ Heb “before you.”} Live in it, travel freely in it, ^{▼▼ 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.”} and acquire property in it.”