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Genesis 34:12

Verse 12 of 31. The 34th of 50 chapters in Genesis, in The Law.

8Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

9Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

10You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”

11Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.

12Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”

13The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

14and 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.

15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,

16then will we give our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.