Genesis 34:15

15 Only in this will we consent vnto you? Yf ye will be as we be that all the men childern amonge you be circumcysed

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 Then the sonnes of Iacob answered to Sichem ad Hemor his father deceytefully because he had defyled Dina their syster.

14 And they sayde vnto them we can not do this thinge yt we shulde geue oure syster to one that is vncircumcysed for that were a shame vnto us.

15 Only in this will we consent vnto you? Yf ye will be as we be that all the men childern amonge you be circumcysed

16 tha will we geue oure doughter to you and take youres to vs and will dwell with you and be one people.

17 But and yf ye will not harken vnto vs to be circumcysed than will we take oure doughter and goo oure wayes.