Genesis 34:17

But if you will not be circumcised, we will take our daughter and depart:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

In Context

16Then will we mutually give and take your daughters, and ours: and we will dwell with you, and will be one people:

18Their offer pleased Hemor, and Sichem his son:

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Matthew Henry on Genesis 34:7-18

Treachery of Dinah's Brethren. ( b. c. 1732.) 6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him. 7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. 8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife. 9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your… Read the whole commentary →

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