Genesis 34:13

The Message

Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father with cunning. Their sister, after all, had been raped. They said, “This is impossible. We could never give our sister to a man who was uncircumcised. Why, we’d be disgraced. The only condition on which we can talk business is if all your men become circumcised like us. Then we will freely exchange daughters in marriage and make ourselves at home among you and become one big, happy family. But if this is not an acceptable condition, we will take our sister and leave.”

Cross References

Proverbs 12:13

The gossip of bad people gets them in trouble; the conversation of good people keeps them out of it.

Judges 15:3

Samson said, “That does it. This time when I wreak havoc on the Philistines, I’m blameless.”