But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
- Dinah’s Dishonor This chapter records the rape of Dinah and the revenge of her brothers. Gen 34:1-5 Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land. The Jewish doctors of a later period fix the…
Adam Clarke
Then will we take our daughter, and we will he gone - It is natural to suppose that the tribe of Hamor was very inconsiderable, else they would not have sought an alliance with the family of Jacob,…
Jacob's sons, when they heard of the injury done to Dinah, showed a very great resentment of it, influenced perhaps rather by jealousy for the honour of their family than by a sense of virtue. Many…