Genesis 34:15

We will only agree to it with this condition: all of you must be circumcised like us.

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In The King James Version

But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;

In Context

14They told them, “We can't do this! We can't allow our sister to marry a man who's not circumcised. That would bring disgrace on us.

16Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters, and we will live among you and become one family.

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Cross References

Galatians 4:12I'm pleading with you, my friends: be like me, because I became like you. You've never treated me badly.

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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