16. Then your families can marry into ours, and ours can marry into yours, and we can live together like one nation.
17. But if you don't agree to get circumcised, we'll take Dinah and leave this place.
18. Hamor and Shechem liked what was said.
19. Shechem was the most respected person in his family, and he was so in love with Dinah that he hurried off to get everything done.
20. The two men met with the other leaders of their city and told them:
21. These people really are friendly. Why not let them move freely about until they find the property they want? There's enough land here for them and for us. Then our families can marry into theirs, and theirs can marry into ours.
22. We have to do only one thing before they will agree to stay here and become one nation with us. Our men will have to be circumcised like their men.
23. Just think! We'll get their property, as well as their flocks and herds. All we have to do is to agree, and they will live here with us.
24. Every grown man followed this advice and got circumcised.
25. Three days later the men who had been circumcised were still weak from pain. So Simeon and Levi, two of Dinah's brothers, attacked with their swords and killed every man in town,