Discovery BoxGenesis 34:15-17 
Context34:15 We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become 1 like us by circumcising 2 all your males. 34:16 Then we will give 3 you our daughters to marry, 4 and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people. 34:17 But if you do not agree to our terms 5 by being circumcised, then we will take 6 our sister 7 and depart.”
1 tn Heb “if you are like us.”
2 tn The infinitive here explains how they would become like them.
3 tn The perfect verbal form with the vav (ו) consecutive introduces the apodosis of the conditional sentence.
4 tn The words “to marry” (and the words “as wives” in the following clause) are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “listen to us.”
6 tn The perfect verbal form with the vav (ו) consecutive introduces the apodosis of the conditional sentence.
7 tn Heb “daughter.” Jacob’s sons call Dinah their daughter, even though she was their sister (see v. 8). This has been translated as “sister” for clarity.
