15But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
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Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-17)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 are concerned at the shamefulness of sin that never lay to heart the sinfulness of it. It is here called folly in Israel (Gen. 34:7), according to the language of after-times; for Israel was not yet a p…
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