12. Make the price for the bride and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I’ll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the young woman as my wife.”
13. Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob’s sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor.
14. They said to them, “We can’t do such a thing; we can’t give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us.
15. We will enter into an agreement with you on one condition only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males.
16. Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We’ll settle among you and become one people with you.
17. But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we’ll take our sister and go.”
18. Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.