Please help my confusion with the verb Dejar

Question

Gal 5:2 KJV Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

Gal 5:2 NVI Escuchen bien: yo, Pablo, les digo que si se hacen circuncidar, Cristo no les servirá de nada.

Gal 5:2 RV1960 He aquí, yo Pablo os digo que si os circuncidáis, de nada os aprovechará Cristo.

Gal 5:2 NBLH Miren, yo, Pablo, les digo que si se dejan circuncidar, Cristo de nada les aprovechará.

Can someone help me understand the verb dejar as it's used here in the NBLH translation. In this context I'm understanding it to be something like "left to circumcise" or something similar. The KJV, NVI and RV1960 all seem to agree with each other.

This might be my brain still not working because of being stomped on by the flu for a week, but no matter how hard I squint, I can't get it to work.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Answer 1

Hi Jack, in the third sentence I think it means to let.

If they let the others circumcise them....

Wow, that makes it embarassingly simple. I wonder what else I've lost during this last week of semi-conscientiousness? - Jack-OBrien, Jan 19, 2011

and Thanks. - Jack-OBrien, Jan 19, 2011

Answer 2

Galatians 5:2 (Today’s New International Version, ©2005)

2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.

Thank you. My mind had drawn a blank, I complete forget "to let". - Jack-OBrien, Jan 19, 2011