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15 We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become[a] like us by circumcising[b] all your males. 16 Then we will give[c] you our daughters to marry,[d] and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 34:15 tn Heb “if you are like us.”
  2. Genesis 34:15 tn The infinitive here explains how they would become like them.
  3. Genesis 34:16 tn The perfect verbal form with the vav (ו) consecutive introduces the apodosis of the conditional sentence.
  4. Genesis 34:16 tn The words “to marry” (and the words “as wives” in the following clause) are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

15 We will agree with you only on this condition: if all your males are circumcised as we are.(A) 16 Then we will give you our daughters, take your daughters for ourselves, live with you, and become one people.

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15 We will enter into an agreement with you on one condition(A) only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males.(B) 16 Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves.(C) We’ll settle among you and become one people with you.(D)

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