Genesis 34:22
Good News Translation
But these men will agree to live among us and be one people with us only on the condition that we circumcise all our males, as they are circumcised.

New Revised Standard Version
Only on this condition will they agree to live among us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised.

Contemporary English Version
We have to do only one thing before they will agree to stay here and become one nation with us. Our men will have to be circumcised just like theirs.

New American Bible
But only on this condition will the men agree to live with us and form one people with us: that every male among us be circumcised as they themselves are.

Douay-Rheims Bible
One thing there is for which so great a good is deferred: We must circumcise every male among us, following the manner of the nation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

One thing there is for which so great a good is deferred: We must circumcise every male among us, following the manner of the nation.

Genesis 34:15-17 But in this we may be allied with you, if you will be like us, and all the male sex among you be circumcised: . . .

Context
The Revenge of Dinah's Brothers
21These men are peaceable, and are willing to dwell with us: let them trade in the land, and till it, which being large and wide wanteth men to till it: we shall take their daughters for wives, and we will give them ours. 22One thing there is for which so great a good is deferred: We must circumcise every male among us, following the manner of the nation.23And their substance, and cattle, and all that they possess, shall be ours; only in this let us condescend, and by dwelling together, we shall make one people.…
Cross References
Genesis 34:21
These men are peaceable, and are willing to dwell with us: let them trade in the land, and till it, which being large and wide wanteth men to till it: we shall take their daughters for wives, and we will give them ours.

Genesis 34:23
And their substance, and cattle, and all that they possess, shall be ours; only in this let us condescend, and by dwelling together, we shall make one people.

Genesis 34:21
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