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 Ref} 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.