(SEE 5:4)
So they tricked them by saying: You're not circumcised! It would be a disgrace for us to let you marry Dinah now.
You were worried that your own children would be captured. But I, the LORD, will let them enter the land you have rejected.
Then the LORD spoke to you again: People of Israel, you said that your innocent young children would be taken prisoner in the battle for the land. But someday I will let them go into the land, and with my help they will conquer it and live there.
Everyone who had been circumcised needed time to heal, and they stayed in camp.
