Genesis 34:17
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New International Version (©2011)
But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we'll take our sister and go."

New Living Translation (©2007)
But if you don't agree to be circumcised, we will take her and be on our way."

English Standard Version (©2001)
But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will be gone.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"But if you will not listen to us to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go."

International Standard Version (©2012)
But if you won't listen to us, then we're going to take our daughter and leave."

NET Bible (©2006)
But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
If you won't agree to be circumcised, we'll take our daughter and go."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But if you will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

American King James Version
But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

American Standard Version
But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if you will not be circumcised, we will take our daughter and depart:

Darby Bible Translation
But if ye do not hearken to us, to be circumcised, then will we take our daughter and go away.

English Revised Version
But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

Webster's Bible Translation
But if ye will not hearken to us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

World English Bible
But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone."

Young's Literal Translation
and if ye hearken not unto us to be circumcised, then we have taken our daughter, and have gone.'

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 if ye will not hearken to us to be circumcised,.... Will not agree to this condition, circumcision:

then will we take our daughter; by force, as the Targum of Jonathan adds:

and we will be gone: depart from this part of the country, and go elsewhere.

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The Revenge of Dinah's Brothers
…16Then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. 17But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone. 18And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son. …

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.
Genesis 34:18 Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.