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14 The brothers said to them, “We cannot allow you to marry our sister. You are not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us. 15 But we will allow you to marry her if you do this one thing: Every man in your town must be circumcised like us. 16 Then your men can marry our women, and our men can marry your women. Then we will live in your land and become one people.

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14 They said to them, “We can’t do such a thing; we can’t give our sister to a man who is not circumcised.(A) That would be a disgrace to us. 15 We will enter into an agreement with you on one condition(B) only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males.(C) 16 Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves.(D) We’ll settle among you and become one people with you.(E)

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