10. And live with us. The land is in your power: cultivate, trade, and possess it."
11. And Shechem even said to her father and to her brothers: "May I find favor in your sight, and whatever you will appoint, I will give.
12. Increase the dowry, and request gifts, and I will freely bestow what you will ask. Only give me this girl as a wife."
13. The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father with deceit, being enraged at the rape of their sister:
14. "We are not able to do what you ask, nor to give our sister to an uncircumcised man. For us, this is unlawful and abominable.
15. But we may succeed in this, so as to be allied with you, if you are willing to become like us, and if all the male sex among you will be circumcised.
16. Then we will mutually give and receive your daughters as well as ours; and we will live with you, and we will become one people.
17. But if you will not be circumcised, we will take our daughter and withdraw."
18. Their offer pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.
19. Neither did the young man cause any delay; in fact he immediately fulfilled what was requested. For he loved the girl very much, and he was well-known throughout his father's house.
20. And entering at the gate of the city, they spoke to the people:
21. "These men are peaceful, and they want to live among us. Let them trade in the land and cultivate it, for, being spacious and broad, it is in need of cultivation. We will receive their daughters as wives, and we will give them ours.
22. There is one thing that prevents so great a good: whether we will circumcise our males, imitating the ritual of their nation.
23. And their substance, and cattle, and all that they possess, will be ours, if only we will acquiesce to this, and so, in living together, will form one people."