15. But we will consent to you in this: If you will become as we are, that is, every one of your males be circumcised,
16. then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
17. But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will leave.”
18. Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.
19. The young man did not delay to do the thing, because he wanted Jacob’s daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of his father.
20. So Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and they spoke with the men of their city, saying,
21. “These men are at peace with us. Therefore let them dwell in the land and trade in it. For the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters as our wives, and let us give them our daughters.
22. Only on this condition will the men consent to dwell with us and be one people: if every male among us will be circumcised as they are circumcised.
23. Will not their livestock and their possessions and every animal of theirs be ours? Only, let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us.”
24. All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and Shechem his son, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
25. On the third day, when they were in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and went to the unsuspecting city and killed all the males.
26. They killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword and took Dinah out of the house of Shechem and departed.
27. The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and looted the city, because they had defiled their sister.
28. They took their flocks and their herds, their donkeys and whatever was in the city and in the fields.