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Genesis 34:15

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We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

KJV

But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;

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This verse in Genesis 34

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Religion is never more injured, nor are God's sacraments more profaned, than when they are thus used for a cloak of maliciousness. Nay, if Jacob's sons had not had this bloody design, I do not see how they could justify their offering the sacred sign of circumcision, the seal of God's covenant, to these devoted Canaanites, who had no part nor lot in the matter.

This site's exposition

that you become circumcised like us

on Genesis 34:15-17

The condition they set is that every male be circumcised, the sign of the covenant given to Abraham at Genesis 17:10. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown observe that nothing in the terms brings these men to the God of Jacob. One people is what verse 16 offers, and Hamor repeats it at the gate in verse 22. The daughters go both ways in the bargain.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

But in this will we consent unto you,.... Upon the following condition, that Dinah should be given in marriage: if ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised; as the sons of Jacob were, according to the command given to Abraham their great grandfather, Gen 17:10.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אַךְ־only

    ʾakh-H389 →161 times

  • בְּזֹ֖אתin this

    bezotH2063 →603 times

  • נֵא֣וֹתwe will agree

    neotH225 →4 times

  • לָכֶ֑םto <the> you

    lakhem

  • אִ֚םif

    ʾimH518 →1069 times

  • תִּהְי֣וּyou will be

    tihyuH1961 →3559 times

  • כָמֹ֔נוּlike us

    khamonuH3644 →143 times

  • לְהִמֹּ֥לby being circumcised

    lehimolH4135 →37 times

  • לָכֶ֖םof you

    lakhem

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • זָכָֽר׃male

    zakharH2145 →82 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Galatians 4:12

    I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.

    it leads to

    • 2 Corinthians 2:5

      Now if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me but all of you—to some degree, not to overstate it.

    • 1 Kings 22:4

      So he asked Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to fight against Ramoth-gilead?” Jehoshaphat answered the king of Israel, “I am like you, my people are your people, and my horses are your horses.”

    • 1 Corinthians 9:20–23

      To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), to win…

    • Acts 21:21

      But they are under the impression that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe our customs.

    • 2 Corinthians 6:13

      As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
Genesis: the study guide →Read Genesis 34 →

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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