Verse 14
Genesis 34:14
GOD'S WORD Translation
14
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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ אֲלֵי/הֶ֗ם לֹ֤א נוּכַל֙ לַ/עֲשׂוֹת֙ הַ/דָּבָ֣ר הַ/זֶּ֔ה לָ/תֵת֙ אֶת אֲחֹתֵ֔/נוּ לְ/אִ֖ישׁ אֲשֶׁר ל֣/וֹ עָרְלָ֑ה כִּֽי חֶרְפָּ֥ה הִ֖וא לָֽ/נוּ
English Translation
And they said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for it is a disgrace to us."
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Chapter 34 Context
1
Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
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Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and...
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His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to th...
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Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”
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Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the...
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Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.
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The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were ver...
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Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give h...
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9
Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
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You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions...
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Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you wi...
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Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lad...
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The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defil...
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14
and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that...
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Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be c...
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then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell wit...
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But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be go...
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Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.
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The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was h...
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Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, s...
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“These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, th...
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Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every ma...
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Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our cons...
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All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male w...
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On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each...
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They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s...
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Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
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They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in th...
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and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder e...
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Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the la...
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They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”
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