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Genesis 34:24
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Genesis 34:24
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
24 All who went out of the gate of the city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and all the males, all those who went out of the gate of the city,[a] were circumcised.
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- 34:24 All those who went out of the gate of the city: apparently meaning all the residents. By temporarily crippling the men through circumcision, Jacob’s sons deprived the city of its defenders.
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