Genesis 34
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Genesis 34:20-23

20So Hamor and his son Shechem came into the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying:

21“These men are enjoying a peaceful relationship with us and they are living in the land and moving about freely in it. As for the land, look, it’s spread out on both sides before us. We can take their daughters to be our wives, and we can give our daughters to them.

22But by this did these men consent to us, to live with us and to become one people—when all our males are circumcised as they are circumcised.

23Their livestock and their possessions: won’t they be ours? Only let us consent to them so that they’ll live with us.”

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