But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart.”

“Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.

They said to one other, “Surely we’re being punished because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress has come on us!”

They shouted to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!”

But if you will not send him, we won’t go down there because the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’”

“Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for your hungry households and go.