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15 We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become[a] like us by circumcising[b] all your males. 16 Then we will give[c] you our daughters to marry,[d] and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 34:15 tn Heb “if you are like us.”
  2. Genesis 34:15 tn The infinitive here explains how they would become like them.
  3. Genesis 34:16 tn The perfect verbal form with the vav (ו) consecutive introduces the apodosis of the conditional sentence.
  4. Genesis 34:16 tn The words “to marry” (and the words “as wives” in the following clause) are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.