11. Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, “Do me this favour, and I will give you whatever you want.
12. Tell me what presents you want, and set the payment for the bride as high as you wish; I will give you whatever you ask, if you will only let me marry her.”
13. Because Shechem had disgraced their sister Dinah, Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor in a deceitful way.
14. They said to him, “We cannot let our sister marry a man who is not circumcised; that would be a disgrace for us.
15. We can agree only on the condition that you become like us by circumcising all your males.
16. Then we will agree to intermarriage. We will settle among you and become one people with you.
17. But if you will not accept our terms and be circumcised, we will take her and leave.”
18. These terms seemed fair to Hamor and his son Shechem,
19. and the young man lost no time in doing what was suggested, because he was in love with Jacob's daughter. He was the most important member of his family.
20. Hamor and his son Shechem went to the meeting place at the city gate and spoke to the people of the town:
21. “These men are friendly; let them live in the land with us and travel freely. The land is large enough for them also. Let us marry their daughters and give them ours in marriage.
22. But these men will agree to live among us and be one people with us only on condition that we circumcise all our males, as they are circumcised.
23. Won't all their livestock and everything else they own be ours? So let us agree that they can live among us.”
24. All the citizens of the city agreed with what Hamor and Shechem proposed, and all the males were circumcised.
25. Three days later, when the men were still sore from their circumcision, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, took their swords, went into the city without arousing suspicion, and killed all the men,
26. including Hamor and his son Shechem. Then they took Dinah from Shechem's house and left.
27. After the slaughter Jacob's other sons looted the town to take revenge for their sister's disgrace.
28. They took the flocks, the cattle, the donkeys, and everything else in the city and in the fields.
29. They took everything of value, captured all the women and children, and carried off everything in the houses.
30. Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me; now the Canaanites, the Perizzites, and everybody else in the land will hate me. I haven't many men; if they all band together against me and attack me, our whole family will be destroyed.”