Genesis 34:17

17 If you refuse to be circumcised, we will take Dinah and leave."

Genesis 34:17 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 34:17

But if ye will not hearken to us to be circumcised
Will not agree to this condition, circumcision: then will we take our daughter;
by force, as the Targum of Jonathan adds: and we will be gone:
depart from this part of the country, and go elsewhere.

Genesis 34:17 In-Context

15 But we will allow you to marry her if you do this one thing: Every man in your town must be circumcised like us.

16 Then your men can marry our women, and our men can marry your women, and we will live in your land and become one people.

17 If you refuse to be circumcised, we will take Dinah and leave."

18 What they asked seemed fair to Hamor and Shechem.

19 So Shechem quickly went to be circumcised because he loved Jacob's daughter. Now Shechem was the most respected man in his family.