Their livestock and their possessions: won’t they be ours? Only let us consent to them so that they’ll live with us.”
But by this did these men consent to us, to live with us and to become one people—when all our males are circumcised as they are circumcised.
Now everyone who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, every one who went out the gate of his city.
A faithful man will have many blessings, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.
To those selling doves, He said, “Get these things out of here! Stop making My Father’s house a marketplace!”