אוּת

We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males.

But only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us and be one people: if all our men are circumcised as they are.

Will not their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell among us.”

So the priests agreed that they would not receive money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.