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13 Then, the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor, his father, talking deceitfully because he had defiled their sister.

14 And they said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to an uncircumcised man, for that would be a reproach to us.

15 “But we will consent to you in this: if you will be as we are, in that every male child among you be circumcised.

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