You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.
Genesis 34:14 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) and said to them, *We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They said to them, We cannot do this thing and give our sister to one who is not circumcised, for that would be a reproach and disgrace to us. American Standard Version (1901) and said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us. Common English Bible They said to them, “We can’t do this, allowing our sisters to marry uncircumcised men, because it’s disgraceful to us. Catholic Public Domain Version "We are not able to do what you ask, nor to give our sister to an uncircumcised man. For us, this is unlawful and abominable. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version We cannot do what you demand, nor give our sister to one that is uncircumcised, which with us is unlawful and abominable. |
You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.
The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.*
The sons of Ya`akov answered Shekhem and Chamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
Don't tell it in Gat. Don't publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Pelishtim rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
It happened at the end of forty years, that Avshalom said to the king, please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the LORD, in Chevron.
She wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Navot on high among the people:
Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Yosef in a dream, saying, *Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.*
He sent them to Beit-Lechem, and said, *Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.*
He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Pelishtim? Shimshon said to his father, Get her for me; for she pleases me well.
Yonatan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us; for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.
David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man who kills this Pelishti, and takes away the reproach from Yisra'el? for who is this uncircumcised Pelishti, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
Your servant struck both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Pelishti shall be as one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.