Genesis 34:21-23

New International Reader's Version

²¹ “These men are friendly toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land. Let them trade in it. The land has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters. And they can marry ours. ²² But they will agree to live with us as one big family only on one condition. All our males must be circumcised, just as they are. ²³ Won’t their livestock and their property belong to us? Won’t all their animals become ours? So let’s say yes to them. Then they’ll live among us.”