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Genesis 34:10-15 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

10. and dwell with us, and let the land be before you. Dwell and move about in it, and have possessions in it.”

11. And Sheḵem said to her father and her brothers, “Let me find favour in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I give.

12. “Ask of me a bride price and gift ever so high, and I give according to what you say to me, but give me the girl for a wife.”

13. But the sons of Ya‛aqoḇ answered Sheḵem and Ḥamor his father, and spoke with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

14. And they said to them, “We are not able to do this matter, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us.

15. “Only on this condition would we agree to you: If you become as we are, to have every male of you circumcised,

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