CIRCUMCISION = ENTER INTO COVENANT RELATIONSHIP

Genesis 34:16 Then will we give our daughters unto you and we will take your daughters to us and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

Genesis 34:17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

Genesis 34:24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised all that went out of the gate of his city.