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Genesis 34:14

They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to anyone who is uncircumcised; for that would be a disgrace to us.

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In The King James Version

And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:

In Context

13The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, because Shechem had defiled Dinah their sister.

15Only on this condition will we agree with you: If you will become circumcised as we are, if every male among you is circumcised.

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Cross References

Genesis 17:14Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”

Joshua 5:7It was their children that Yahweh raised up in their place that Joshua circumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.

Judges 14:3His father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people? Are you going to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for when I look at her, she pleases me.”

1 Samuel 17:26David said to the men who stood by him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

2 Samuel 1:20Do not tell it in Gath, 1 do not proclaim it 2 in the streets of Ashkelon, 1 so that the daughters of the 2 Philistines may not rejoice, 1 so that the daughters of the 2 uncircumcised may not celebrate. 1

1 Kings 21:9She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast and seat Naboth above the people.

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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