Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”

Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.

Only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us to become one people—when every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.

Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams.”