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22 But the men will agree to live with us and become one people only if we circumcise every male just as they do. 23 Their livestock, their property, and all of their animals—won’t they be ours? Let’s agree with them and let them live with us.” 24 Everyone at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, so every able-bodied male in the city was circumcised.

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22 But the men will agree to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised,(A) as they themselves are. 23 Won’t their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours?(B) So let us agree to their terms, and they will settle among us.(C)

24 All the men who went out of the city gate(D) agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.

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