Won’t their livestock and their property belong to us? Won’t all their animals become ours? So let’s say yes to them. Then they’ll live among us.”
But they will agree to live with us as one big family only on one condition. All our males must be circumcised, just as they are.
All the men who went out through the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. So every male in the city was circumcised.
A faithful person will be richly blessed. But anyone who wants to get rich will be punished.
He told those who were selling doves, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!”