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Genesis 34:17

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But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

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The surrounding passage

  1. Genesis 34:15

    But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;

  2. Genesis 34:16

    Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

  3. Genesis 34:18

    And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.

  4. Genesis 34:19

    And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.

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