16. "Then we'll give you our daughters as your wives. And we'll take your daughters as our wives. We'll settle among you and become one people with you.
17. But if you won't agree to it, then we'll take our sister and go."
18. Their offer seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.
19. The young man was the most honored of all of the men in his father's family. He didn't lose any time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter.
20. Hamor and his son Shechem went to the city gate. They spoke to the other men in town.
21. "These men are friendly toward us," they said. "Let them live in our land. Let them trade in it. The land has plenty of room for them. We can get married to their daughters. And they can marry ours.
22. "But they will agree to live with us as one people only on one condition. All of our males must be circumcised, just as they are.
23. "Won't their livestock and their property belong to us? Won't all of their animals become ours? So let's say yes to them. Then they'll settle among us."
24. All of the men who went out through the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. So every male in the city was circumcised.