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Genesis 34:12-15 Common English Bible (CEB)

12. Make the bride price and marriage gifts as large as you like, and I will pay whatever you tell me. Then let me marry the young woman."

13. Jacob’s sons responded deviously to Shechem and his father Hamor because Shechem defiled their sister Dinah.

14. They said to them, "We can’t do this, allowing our sisters to marry uncircumcised men, because it’s disgraceful to us.

15. We can only agree to do this if you circumcise every male as we do.

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