22. Only on this condition will they give consent to us, to live with us and to become one family—when every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.
23. Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals be ours? Only let us give consent to them so they will live among us.”
24. And all those who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and Shechem. Every male was circumcised, all those who went out of the gate of his city.
25. And it happened that on the third day, while they were in pain, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, each took his sword and came against the unsuspecting city and killed all the males.
26. They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and they took Dinah from the house of Shechem and went out.
27. The other sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
28. They took their flocks and their cattle and their donkeys, and whatever was in the field.
29. They captured and plundered all that was in the houses—all their wealth, their little ones, and their women.
30. Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me, making me stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites! I am few in number! If they gather against me and attack me, I will be destroyed—I and my household!”
31. But they said, “Shall he treat our sister like a prostitute?”