8. But Ḥamor spoke with them, saying, “My son Sheḵem’s being longs for your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife.
9. “And intermarry with us, give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves,
10. and dwell with us, and let the land be before you. Dwell and move about in it, and have possessions in it.”
11. And Sheḵem said to her father and her brothers, “Let me find favour in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I give.
12. “Ask of me a bride price and gift ever so high, and I give according to what you say to me, but give me the girl for a wife.”
13. But the sons of Ya‛aqoḇ answered Sheḵem and Ḥamor his father, and spoke with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.
14. And they said to them, “We are not able to do this matter, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us.
15. “Only on this condition would we agree to you: If you become as we are, to have every male of you circumcised,
16. then we shall give our daughters to you, and take your daughters to us. And we shall dwell with you, and shall become one people.
17. “But if you do not listen to us and be circumcised, we shall take our daughter and go.”
18. And their words pleased Ḥamor and Sheḵem, Ḥamor’s son.
19. And the young man did not delay to do this because he delighted in Ya‛aqoḇ’s daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of his father.
20. And Ḥamor and Sheḵem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke with the men of their city, saying,