Genesis 34:14

New International Reader's Version

They said to them, “We can’t do it. We can’t give our sister to a man who isn’t circumcised. That would bring shame on us.

Cross References

Genesis 17:11

That will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.

Genesis 17:14

Any male who has not been circumcised will be separated from his people. He has broken my covenant.”

Genesis 34:13

Their sister Dinah had been raped. So Jacob’s sons lied to Shechem and his father Hamor.

Genesis 34:15

We’ll agree, but only on one condition. You will have to become like us. You will have to circumcise all your males.

2 Samuel 1:20

“Don’t announce it in Gath. Don’t tell it in the streets of Ashkelon. If you do, the daughters of the Philistines will be glad. The daughters of men who haven’t been circumcised will be joyful.

2 Samuel 15:7

After Absalom had lived in Jerusalem for four years, he went and spoke to the king. He said, “Let me go to Hebron. I want to keep a promise I made to the Lord.

1 Kings 21:9

In those letters she wrote, “Announce a day when people are supposed to go without eating. Have Naboth sit in an important place among the people.

Matthew 2:13

When the Wise Men had left, Joseph had a dream. In the dream an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph. “Get up!” the angel said. “Take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you to come back. Herod is going to search for the child. He wants to kill him.”

Matthew 2:8

He sent them to Bethlehem. He said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report it to me. Then I can go and worship him too.”

Romans 4:11

He was circumcised as a sign of the covenant God had made with him. It showed that his faith had made him right with God before he was circumcised. So Abraham is the father of all believers who have not been circumcised. God accepts their faith. So their faith makes them right with him.

Judges 14:3

His father and mother replied, “Can’t we find a wife for you among your relatives? Isn’t there one among any of our people? Do you have to go to the Philistines to get a wife? They aren’t God’s people. They haven’t even been circumcised.” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me. She’s the right one for me.”

1 Samuel 14:6

Jonathan spoke to the young man carrying his armor. He said, “Come on. Let’s go over to the camp of those fellows who aren’t circumcised. Perhaps the Lord will help us. If he does, it won’t matter how many or how few of us there are. That won’t keep the Lord from saving us.”

1 Samuel 17:26

David spoke to the men standing near him. He asked them, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine? Goliath is bringing shame on Israel. What will be done for the one who removes it? This Philistine isn’t even circumcised. He dares the armies of the living God to fight him. Who does he think he is?”

1 Samuel 17:36

In fact, I’ve killed both a lion and a bear. I’ll do the same thing to this Philistine. He isn’t even circumcised. He has dared the armies of the living God to fight him.