14. They said to them, We cannot do this thing and give our sister to one who is not circumcised, for that would be a reproach and disgrace to us.
15. But we do consent to do this: if you will become as we are and every male among you be circumcised,
16. Then we will give our daughters to you and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you and become one people.
17. But if you will not listen to us and consent to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.
18. Their words pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.
19. And the young man did not delay to do the thing, for he delighted in Jacob's daughter. He was honored above all his family [so, ranking first, he acted first].
20. Then Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their [enclosed] town and discussed the matter with the citizens, saying,
21. These men are peaceable with us; so let them dwell in the land and trade in it; for the land is large enough [for us and] for them; let us take their daughters for wives and let us give them our daughters.
22. But the men will consent to our request that they live among us and be one people only on condition that every male among us be circumcised, as they are.
23. Shall not their cattle and their possessions and all their beasts be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell here with us.
24. And all the people who went out of the town gate listened and heeded what Hamor and Shechem said; and every male was circumcised who was a resident of that town.
25. But on the third day [after the circumcision] when [all the men] were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's [full] brothers, took their swords, boldly entered the city [without danger], and slew all the males.
26. And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword and took Dinah out of Shechem's house [where she had been all this time] and departed.
27. [Then the rest of] Jacob's [eleven] sons came upon the slain and plundered the town, because there their sister had been defiled and disgraced.