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.
28. They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the town and in the field;
29. All their wealth and all their little ones and their wives they took captive, making spoil even of all [they found] in the houses.
30. And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have ruined me, making me infamous and embroiling me with the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites! And we are few in number, and they will gather together against me and attack me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my household.
31. And they said, Should he [be permitted to] deal with our sister as with a harlot?