²¹ “These men are peaceful. Let them live with us in the land and move about freely. There is ample space in every direction. We can take their daughters for wives and we can give them ours. ²² But there is one condition before these men will agree to live with us to become a single people: that we circumcise each of our males as they themselves are circumcised. ²³ Would not their herds, their riches, and all their animals then be ours? Let us agree to their proposal, and they will then live with us.”