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Shechem’s City Agrees to Circumcision
Genesis 34:18-24
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And their words are good in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shechem, Hamor's son;
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and the young man delayed not to do the thing, for he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he is honourable above all the house of his father.
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And Hamor cometh--Shechem his son also--unto the gate of their city, and they speak unto the men of their city, saying,
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`These men are peaceable with us; then let them dwell in the land, and trade in it; and the land, lo, is wide before them; their daughters let us take to ourselves for wives, and our daughters give to them.
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`Only for this do the men consent to us, to dwell with us, to become one people, in every male of us being circumcised, as they are circumcised;
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their cattle, and their substance, and all their beasts--are they not ours? only let us consent to them, and they dwell with us.'
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And unto Hamor, and unto Shechem his son, hearken do all those going out of the gate of his city, and every male is circumcised, all those going out of the gate of his city.
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