World English Bible

Genesis 34:14

“and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.”

Verse in context — Genesis 34

Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.

The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.

Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

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.

The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).