“Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.”
But the men will agree to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised, as they themselves are. The condition is disclosed to the citizens with the framing that it is the requirement of the outsiders, not a request. The application: how a condition is framed to those who must accept it shapes whether it is accepted.
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