Genesis 34:15

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

But we will let you marry her, if you and the other men in your tribe get circumcised.

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As the sign that you are keeping this promise, you must circumcise every man and boy in your family.

So they tricked them by saying: You're not circumcised! It would be a disgrace for us to let you marry Dinah now.

Then your families can marry into ours, and ours can marry into yours, and we can live together like one nation.

My friends, I beg you to be like me, just as I once tried to be like you. Did you ill-treat me