Will not their livestock, their property, and all their animals be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will live among us.”
Only on this condition will they agree to live among us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised.
And all who went out of the city gate heeded Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
The faithful will abound with blessings, but one who is in a hurry to be rich will not go unpunished.
He told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!”