10. You can live with us, and the land will be open to you: live in it, move about freely in it, and settle down in it.”
11. Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, “Would that I find favor in your eyes! Whatever you say to me I’ll give.
12. Set the dowry and the presents as high as you like and I’ll give whatever you say to me. But give me the young woman as a wife.”
13. But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully as they spoke, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.
14. They said to them, “We can’t do this thing—give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised—for this is a disgrace to us.
15. Only by this will we consent to you: if you will become like us, by circumcising every male.
16. Then we’ll give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves, and live with you, and become one people.
17. But if you don’t listen to us and be circumcised, we’ll take our daughter and leave.”
18. Now their words seemed good to Hamor as well as Hamor’s son Shechem.
19. So the young man did not hesitate to do it, since he delighted in Jacob’s daughter. Now he was honored above everyone else in his father’s house.
20. So Hamor and his son Shechem came into the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying:
21. “These men are enjoying a peaceful relationship with us and they are living in the land and moving about freely in it. As for the land, look, it’s spread out on both sides before us. We can take their daughters to be our wives, and we can give our daughters to them.