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Shechem’s City Agrees to Circumcision
Genesis 34:18-24
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What they said seemed fair to Hamor and Sh'khem the son of Hamor,
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and the young man did not put off doing what was asked of him, even though he was the most respected member of his father's family, because he so much wanted Ya'akov' s daughter.
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Hamor and Sh'khem his son came to the entrance of their city and spoke with its leading men:
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"These people are peaceful toward us; therefore let them live in the land and do business in it; for, as you can see, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters as wives for ourselves, and we'll give them our daughters.
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But the people will consent to live with us and become one people only on this condition: that every male among us gets circumcised, as they themselves are circumcised.
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Won't their cattle, their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let's consent to do what they ask, and then they will live with us."
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Everyone going out the city's gate listened to Hamor and Sh'khem his son; so every male was circumcised, every one that went out the gate of the city.
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