Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
14 They said to him, "We cannot let our sister marry a man who is not circumcised; that would be a disgrace for us.
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They said to them, “We can’t do such a thing; we can’t give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us.
15 We can agree only on the condition that you become like us by circumcising all your males.
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We will enter into an agreement with you on one condition only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males.
16 Then we will agree to intermarriage. We will settle among you and become one people with you.
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Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We’ll settle among you and become one people with you.
17 But if you will not accept our terms and be circumcised, we will take her and leave."
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But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we’ll take our sister and go.”
18 These terms seemed fair to Hamor and his son Shechem,
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Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.
19 and the young man lost no time in doing what was suggested, because he was in love with Jacob's daughter. He was the most important member of his family.
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The young man, who was the most honored of all his father’s family, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.
20 Hamor and his son Shechem went to the meeting place at the city gate and spoke to the people of the town:
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So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city to speak to the men of their city.
21 "These men are friendly; let them live in the land with us and travel freely. The land is large enough for them also. Let us marry their daughters and give them ours in marriage.
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“These men are friendly toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and trade in it; the land has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters and they can marry ours.
22 But these men will agree to live among us and be one people with us only on the condition that we circumcise all our males, as they are circumcised.
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But the men will agree to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised, as they themselves are.
23 Won't all their livestock and everything else they own be ours? So let us agree that they can live among us."
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Won’t their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours? So let us agree to their terms, and they will settle among us.”
24 All the citizens of the city agreed with what Hamor and Shechem proposed, and all the males were circumcised.
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All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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