Genesis 34:23
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New International Version (©2011)
Won't their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours? So let us agree to their terms, and they will settle among us."

New Living Translation (©2007)
But if we do this, all their livestock and possessions will eventually be ours. Come, let's agree to their terms and let them settle here among us."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Will not their livestock, their property and all their beasts be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will live with us."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Won't their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will live with us."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Shouldn't all their cattle, acquisitions, and animals belong to us? So, let's give our consent to them, and then they'll live with us."

NET Bible (©2006)
If we do so, won't their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let's consent to their demand, so they will live among us."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Won't their livestock, their personal property, and all their animals be ours? We only need to agree to do this for them. Then they'll live with us."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

American King James Version
Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be our's? only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.

American Standard Version
Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Darby Bible Translation
Their cattle, and their possessions, and every beast of theirs, shall they not be ours? only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.

English Revised Version
Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

Webster's Bible Translation
Will not their cattle, and their substance, and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.

World English Bible
Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."

Young's Literal Translation
their cattle, and their substance, and all their beasts -- are they not ours? only let us consent to them, and they dwell with us.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

34:20-31 The Shechemites submitted to the sacred rite, only to serve a turn, to please their prince, and to enrich themselves, and it was just with God to bring punishment upon them. As nothing secures us better than true religion, so nothing exposes us more than religion only pretended to. But Simeon and Levi were most unrighteous. Those who act wickedly, under the pretext of religion, are the worst enemies of the truth, and harden the hearts of many to destruction. The crimes of others form no excuse for us. Alas! how one sin leads on to another, and, like flames of fire, spread desolation in every direction! Foolish pleasures lead to seduction; seduction produces wrath; wrath thirsts for revenge; the thirst of revenge has recourse to treachery; treachery issues in murder; and murder is followed by other lawless actions. Were we to trace the history of unlawful commerce between the sexes, we should find it, more than any other sin, ending in blood.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Shall not their cattle, and their substance, and every beast of theirs, be ours?.... Which would in course come into their families in process of time, by intermarrying with them, or, being more numerous and powerful than they, could seize upon them when they pleased, and take all they had: thus they argue from the profit and advantage that would accrue to them by admitting them among them, upon their terms; and this argument, taken from worldly interest, they knew would have great influence upon them:

only let us consent unto them; in the affair of circumcision:

and they will dwell with us; and what by trading with them, and marrying among them, all their wealth and riches will come into our hands.

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The Revenge of Dinah's Brothers
…22Only herein will the men consent to us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised. 23Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be our's? only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us. 24And to Hamor and to Shechem his son listened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city. …

Genesis 34:22 But the men will agree to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised, as they themselves are.
Genesis 34:24 All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.