|
Primary Verses:
-
Gen. 34:15-24
-
"But in this will we consent
unto you: If ye will
be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
Then 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. But if ye will not
hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take
our daughter, and we will be gone. And their words
pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son. And 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. And Hamor and Shechem his son
came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the
men of their city, saying, These men are peaceable with
us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade
therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for
them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and
let us give them our daughters. Only herein will the
men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one
people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they
are circumcised. Shall not their cattle and their
substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us
consent unto them, and they will dwell with us. And
unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that
went out of the gate of his city; and every male was
circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city."
-
Ex. 12:48
-
"And when a stranger shall
sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to YHVH,
let all his males be
circumcised, and then let him come near
and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the
land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof."
|
