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Genesis 34:9-15 Darby Translation 1890 (DARBY)

9. And make marriages with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you.

10. And dwell with us, and the land shall be before you: dwell and trade in it, and get yourselves possessions in it.

11. And Shechem said to her father and to her brethren, Let me find favour in your eyes; and what ye shall say to me I will give.

12. Impose on me very much as dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me; but give me the maiden as wife.

13. And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and spoke--because he had defiled Dinah their sister--

14. and said to them, We cannot do this, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach to us.

15. But only in this will we consent to you, if ye will be as we, that every male of you be circumcised;

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