Won’t their livestock, their personal property, and all their animals be ours? We only need to agree to do this for them. Then they’ll live with us.”
These people will consent to live with us and become one nation on one condition: Every male must be circumcised as they are.
All the men who had come out to the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. So they were all circumcised at the city gate.
A trustworthy person has many blessings, but anyone in a hurry to get rich will not escape punishment.
He told those who sold pigeons, “Pick up this stuff, and get it out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!”