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.
25. In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city and slaughtered every male.
26. They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and left.
27. Jacob’s sons killed them and looted the city because their sister had been violated.
28. They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.
29. They captured as plunder all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.
30. Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought ruin on me by making me a foul odor among the inhabitants of the land – among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!”
31. But Simeon and Levi replied, “Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?”