¹⁰ Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.

⁹ Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.

¹⁵ And Abimelech said, See, all my land is before you; take whatever place seems good to you.

³⁴ And come back to me with your youngest brother: then I will be certain that you are true men, and I will give your brother back to you and let you do trade in the land.

²⁷ And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.

²¹ It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.

²² But these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to become one people, only on the condition that every male among us undergoes circumcision as they have done.

²³ Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.