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and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
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Verse 14. Abominable. To be uncircumcised, was a reproach among the Hebrews. Yet there was no law forbidding to marry such. Laban was of this description, and the Chanaanites also; whose daughters the sons of Jacob themselves espoused, at least Juda and this very Simeon, as the Scripture assures us.
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