Won’t all of their livestock and property become ours? Let us agree to their request, so they will live among us.”
And he told the merchants, “Get these things out of here! Don’t you dare commercialize my Father’s house!”
Life’s blessings drench the honest and faithful person, but punishment rains down upon the greedy and dishonest.
They only have one condition in order to live among us and to unite with us as one people: every male among us must be circumcised as they are circumcised.
So all the townsmen agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.