22 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, and to be one people, if all the men children among us be circumcised as they are circumcised.

23 Shall not [a]their flocks and their substance and all their cattle be ours? only let us consent herein unto them and they will dwell with us.

24 And unto Hamor, and Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city: and all the men children were circumcised, even all that went out of the gate of his city.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 34:23 Thus they lack no kind of persuasion, which prefer their own commodities before the commonwealth.

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