Genesis 34:15
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New International Version (©2011)
We will enter into an agreement with you on one condition only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But here is a solution. If every man among you will be circumcised like we are,

English Standard Version (©2001)
Only on this condition will we agree with you—that you will become as we are by every male among you being circumcised.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Only on this condition will we consent to you: if you will become like us, in that every male of you be circumcised,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
We will agree with you only on this condition: if all your males are circumcised as we are.

International Standard Version (©2012)
But we'll agree to your request, only if you will become like us by circumcising every male among you.

NET Bible (©2006)
We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
We will give our consent to you only on one condition: Every male must be circumcised as we are.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But in this will we consent unto you: If you will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;

American King James Version
But in this will we consent to you: If you will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;

American Standard Version
Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But in this way may we be allied with you, if you will be like us, and all the male sex among you be circumcised:

Darby Bible Translation
But only in this will we consent to you, if ye will be as we, that every male of you be circumcised;

English Revised Version
Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;

Webster's Bible Translation
But in this will we consent to you: If ye will be as we are, that every male of you shall be circumcised;

World English Bible
Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

Young's Literal Translation
'Only for this we consent to you; if ye be as we, to have every male of you circumcised,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

34:1-19 Young persons, especially females, are never so safe and well off as under the care of pious parents. Their own ignorance, and the flattery and artifices of designing, wicked people, who are ever laying snares for them, expose them to great danger. They are their own enemies if they desire to go abroad, especially alone, among strangers to true religion. Those parents are very wrong who do not hinder their children from needlessly exposing themselves to danger. Indulged children, like Dinah, often become a grief and shame to their families. Her pretence was, to see the daughters of the land, to see how they dressed, and how they danced, and what was fashionable among them; she went to see, yet that was not all, she went to be seen too. She went to get acquaintance with the Canaanites, and to learn their ways. See what came of Dinah's gadding. The beginning of sin is as the letting forth of water. How great a matter does a little fire kindle! We should carefully avoid all occasions of sin and approaches to it.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But in this will we consent unto you,.... Upon the following condition, that Dinah should be given in marriage:

if ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised; as the sons of Jacob were, according to the command given to Abraham their great grandfather, Genesis 17:10.

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The Revenge of Dinah's Brothers
13And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister: 14And they said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach to us: 15But in this will we consent to you: If you will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised; …

Genesis 34:14 They said to them, "We can't do such a thing; we can't give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us.
Genesis 34:16 Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We'll settle among you and become one people with you.