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."
24. And they all agreed to circumcise every one of the males.
25. And behold, on the third day, when the pain of the wound was greatest, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, boldly entered the city with swords. And they put to death all of the males.
26. They killed Hamor and Shechem together, taking their sister Dinah from the house of Shechem.
27. And when they had departed, the other sons of Jacob rushed over the slain, and they plundered the city in vengeance for the rape.
28. Taking their sheep, and herds, and donkeys, and laying waste to everything else that was in their houses and in their fields,
29. they also took their little ones and their wives captive.
30. When they had boldly completed these acts, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: "You have troubled me, and you have made me hateful to the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few. They, gathering themselves together, may strike me down, and then both I and my house will be wiped away."
31. They responded, "Should they abuse our sister like a prostitute?"