If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”
Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.
All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.
A faithful person will have an abundance of blessings, but the one who hastens to gain riches will not go unpunished.
To those who sold the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”