17. If you refuse to be circumcised, we will take Dinah and leave.”
18. What they asked seemed fair to Hamor and Shechem.
19. So Shechem went quickly to be circumcised because he loved Jacob’s daughter.Now Shechem was the most respected man in his family.
20. So Hamor and Shechem went to the gate of their city. They spoke to the men of their city. They said,
21. “These people want to be friends with us. So let them live in our land and trade here. There is enough land for all of us. Let us marry their women. And we can let them marry our women.
22. But our men must agree to one thing. All our men must agree to be circumcised as they are. Then they will agree to live in our land. And we will be one people.
23. If we do this, their cattle and their animals will belong to us. Let us do what they say, and they will stay in our land.”
24. All the men who had come to the city gate heard this. And they agreed with Hamor and Shechem. And every man was circumcised.