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Genesis 34:8-15 New International Version (NIV)

8. But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.

9. Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.

10. You can settle among us; the land is open to you. Live in it, trade in it, and acquire property in it.”

11. Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask.

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.

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