Genesis 34:21-23

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²¹ These men are peaceable and willing to dwell with us: let them trade in the land, and till it, which being large and wide wanteth men to till it: we shall take their daughters for wives, and we will give them ours.

²² One thing there is for which so great a good is deferred: We must circumcise every male among us, following the manner of the nation.

²³ And their substance, and cattle, and all that they possess, shall be ours: only in this let us condescend, and by dwelling together, we shall make one people.