Genesis 34:14
World English Bible (WEB)
and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
In context
12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”
13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
14 and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
15 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,
16 then 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.
Genesis 34:14 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
- KJV King James Version
- And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.
- ASV American Standard Version
- and said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and say unto them, 'We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to one who hath a foreskin: for it [is] a reproach to us.
- DBY Darby Translation
- and said to them, We cannot do this, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that [were] a reproach to us.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And they said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised: for that would be a reproach to us: