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RBT Translation:
And they are saying toward them, `We are not able to make the Word of This one, to give אֶת-our sister to a man who to-himself is a foreskin, for a disgraced-one is himself1070 to-ourselves.
LITV Translation:
And they said to them, We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised. For it is a reproach to us.
ESV Translation:
They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
And Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, said to them, We shall not be able to do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for it is a reproach to us.

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Hebrew הִ֖וא masculine pronoun, he with the vowel point added by the Masoretes. The noun foreskin is, strangely, feminine – עָרְלָ֑ה orlah (#6190)