Genesis 34:15
We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.
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- Gal 4:12 : 12 I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!
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- Gen 34:21-244 verses92%
21“These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry.
22Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.
23If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”
24All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.
- Gen 34:16-183 verses88%
16Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.
17But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart.”
18Their offer pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.
- Gen 34:8-147 verses79%
8But Hamor made this appeal to them:“My son Shechem is in love with your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
9Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.
10You may live among us, and the land will be open to you. Live in it, travel freely in it, and acquire property in it.”
11Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers,“Let me find favor in your sight, and whatever you require of me I’ll give.
12You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, and I’ll give whatever you ask of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”
13Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.
14They said to them,“We cannot give our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace to us.
- Gen 17:10-145 verses74%
10This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
11You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you.
12Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants.
13They must indeed be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money. The sign of my covenant will be visible in your flesh as a permanent reminder.
14Any uncircumcised male who has not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off from his people– he has failed to carry out my requirement.”
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23Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household(whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.
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16Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!
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14The men said to her,“If you die, may we die too! If you do not report what we’ve been up to, then, when the LORD hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance to you.”
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20We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.”
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17The men said to her,“We are not bound by this oath you made us swear unless the following conditions are met:
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30“We will not give our daughters in marriage to the neighboring peoples, and we will not take their daughters in marriage for our sons.
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48“When a resident foreigner lives with you and wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land– but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.
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7How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the LORD’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”
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5Now all the men who left were circumcised, but all the sons born on the journey through the wilderness after they left Egypt were uncircumcised.
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1The Jerusalem Council Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers,“Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
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31But Simeon and Levi replied,“Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?”
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11Our leaders and all who live in our land told us,‘Take provisions for your journey and go meet them. Tell them,“We are willing to be your subjects. Make a treaty with us.”’
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3On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised.
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10Come, let’s deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with our enemies and fight against us and leave the country.”