World English Bible
"Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;"
— Genesis 34:15, World English Bible
“But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;”
“Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised; ”
“We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.”
“But in this we may be allied with you, if you will be like us, and all the male sex among you be circumcised:”
“But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;”
“But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;”
Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
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.
Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone."
Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.