14. They said to them, “We cannot give our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace to us.
15. We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.
16. Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.
17. But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart.”
18. Their offer pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.
19. The young man did not delay in doing what they asked because he wanted Jacob’s daughter Dinah badly. (Now he was more important than anyone in his father’s household.)
20. So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city,
21. “These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry.
22. Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.
23. If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”
24. All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.