21. “These people are friendly toward us, so let them live in our land and move about freely in the area. Look, there’s plenty of room in this land for them. We can marry their daughters and let them marry ours.
22. These people will consent to live with us and become one nation on one condition: Every male must be circumcised as they are.
23. Won’t their livestock, their personal property, and all their animals be ours? We only need to agree to do this for them. Then they’ll live with us.”
24. All the men who had come out to the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. So they were all circumcised at the city gate.
25. Two days later, while the men were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and boldly attacked the city. They killed every man
26. including Hamor and his son Shechem. They took Dinah from Shechem’s home and left.
27. Then Jacob’s sons stripped the corpses and looted the city where their sister had been dishonored.
28. They took the sheep and goats, cattle, donkeys, and whatever else was in the city or out in the fields.
29. They carried off all the wealth and all the women and children and looted everything in the houses.
30. Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have caused me a lot of trouble! You’ve made the people living in the area, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, hate me. There are only a few of us. If they join forces against me and attack me, my family and I will be wiped out.”
31. Simeon and Levi asked, “Should Shechem have been allowed to treat our sister like a prostitute?”