World English Bible
Genesis 34:17
“But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”
Verse in context — Genesis 34
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Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
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then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
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But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.
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Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.
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The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.
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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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