The interpretation timeline

Gen 34:15

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Gen 34:15 · Douay-Rheims
“But in this we may be allied with you, if you will be like us, and all the male sex among you be circumcised:”
Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
Rashi Jewish
1040–1105
“נאות לכם means WE WILL CONSENT UNTO YOU: it has the same meaning as (2 Kings 12:9) ויאותו “and they consented”. להמול means TO BE CIRCUMCISED — It is not an active infinitive (Kal), but a passive infinitive (Niphal).”
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.