20. And entering at the gate of the city, they spoke to the people:
21. "These men are peaceful, and they want to live among us. Let them trade in the land and cultivate it, for, being spacious and broad, it is in need of cultivation. We will receive their daughters as wives, and we will give them ours.
22. There is one thing that prevents so great a good: whether we will circumcise our males, imitating the ritual of their nation.
23. And their substance, and cattle, and all that they possess, will be ours, if only we will acquiesce to this, and so, in living together, will form one people."
24. And they all agreed to circumcise every one of the males.
25. And behold, on the third day, when the pain of the wound was greatest, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, boldly entered the city with swords. And they put to death all of the males.
26. They killed Hamor and Shechem together, taking their sister Dinah from the house of Shechem.
27. And when they had departed, the other sons of Jacob rushed over the slain, and they plundered the city in vengeance for the rape.