Study it in the app“Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people: when every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.”
Onlyאַךְon this conditionבְּזֹאתwill the menהָאֲנָשִׁיםconsentיֵאֹתוּto usלָנוּto dwellלָשֶׁבֶתwith us,אִתָּנוּto becomeלִהְיוֹתoneאֶחָדpeople:לְעַםwhen everyבְּ כָּלmaleזָכָרamong usלָנוּis circumcisedהִמּוֹלasכַּאֲשֶׁרtheyהֵםare circumcised.נִמֹּלִים
man
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “anashim” appearsconsent
Consent, agree to something. The word is rare (Genesis 34; 2 Kings 12:8).
Where else “yeotu” appearsdwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “shevet” appearsbecome
To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.
Where else “heot” appearsunited
United as one: "YHWH is one".
Where else “echad” appearscrowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appearsmale
A person of the male sex, man or boy.
Where else “zachar” appearscircumcise
To circumcise, also the heart.
Where else “himol” appears21“These men are at peace with us; let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for the land, look, is spacious enough for them. Their daughters we will take for ourselves as wives, and our daughters we will give to them.
22 · This verse (above)
23Their livestock, their property, and all their animals, will they not be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”
1. What it says
What did Simeon and Levi do after what happened to Dinah (vv. 25-26)?
2. What it means
Why was Jacob upset with them, and what did his sons answer (vv. 30-31)?
3. How I live it
How can you respond to an injustice without paying back harm?
