Genesis 34:15
13 But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.
14 “We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.
We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males.
16 Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We will dwell among you and become one people.
17 But if you will not agree to be circumcised, then we will take our sister and go.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males.
- KJV
- But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
- WEB
- Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,
- ASV
- Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
- DARBY
- But only in this will we consent to you, if ye will be as we, that every male of you be circumcised;
- BLB
- Only on this condition we will consent to you⁺; if you⁺ will become as we [are]—[that] every male among you⁺ be circumcised.
- ÅB
- Bare på det vilkår vil vi være dere til vilje, at dere blir som vi, og alt mannkjønn hos dere lar seg omskjære.
- OTB
- Vi vil samtykke til dere bare på denne betingelsen: at dere blir som oss ved å omskjære alle deres menn.
- B1930
- Bare på det vilkår vil vi være eder til vilje, at I blir som vi, og alt mannkjønn hos eder lar sig omskjære.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Galatians 4:12
I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.
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