‘Only for this we consent to you; if ye be as we, to have every male of you circumcised,
this [is] My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you [is] to be circumcised;
and say unto them, ‘We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to one who hath a foreskin: for it [is] a reproach to us.
then we have given our daughters to you, and your daughters we take to ourselves, and we have dwelt with you, and have become one people;
Become as I [am] — because I also [am] as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,