Genesis 34:15

15 Only on this condition will we consent to you: that you will become as we are and every male of you be circumcised.

Genesis 34:15 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 34:15

But in this will we consent unto you
Upon the following condition, that Dinah should be given in marriage: if ye will be as we [be], that every male of you be circumcised;
as the sons of Jacob were, according to the command given to Abraham their great grandfather, ( Genesis 17:10 ) .

Genesis 34:15 In-Context

13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.
14 They said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.
15 Only on this condition will we consent to you: that you will become as we are and every male of you be circumcised.
16 Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.
17 But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will be gone."
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