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Genesis 34:17 KJV
Genesis · chapter 34 · verse 17
But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.Genesis 34:17 · King James Version
Genesis 34:17 in context
15But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
16Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
17But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
18And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.
19And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- circumcisedmûwlto cut shortH4135 →
- daughterbatha daughterH1323 →
- hearkenshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- takelâqachto takeH3947 →
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Jacob's sons, when they heard of the injury done to Dinah, showed a very great resentment of it, influenced perhaps rather by jealousy for the honour of their family than by a sense of virtue. Many are concerned at the shamefulness of sin that never lay to heart the sinfulness of it.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 6-17