Genesis 34:15

Nevertheless in this we will agree with you, if you will be as we are, by circumcising every male among you,

Targum Onkelos

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

14And they said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man uncircumcised; for that (would be) a reproach to us.

16and we will give our daughters to you, and your daughters will we take to us, and will dwell with you and be one people.

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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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