16. Then will we mutually give and take your daughters, and ours: and we will dwell with you, and will be one people:
17. But if you will not be circumcised, we will take our daughter and depart:
18. Their offer pleased Hemor, and Sichem his son:
19. And the young man made no delay, but forthwith fulfilled what was required, for he loved the damsel exceedingly, and he was the greatest man in all his father's house.
20. And going into the gate of the city they spoke to the people:
21. These men are peaceable and willing to dwell with us: let them trade in the land, and till it, which being large and wide wanteth men to till it: we shall take their daughters for wives, and we will give them ours.
22. One thing there is for which so great a good is deferred: We must circumcise every male among us, following the manner of the nation.
23. And their substance, and cattle, and all that they possess, shall be ours: only in this let us condescend, and by dwelling together, we shall make one people.
24. And they all agreed, and circumcised all the males.
25. And behold the third day, when the pain of the wound was greatest, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dina, taking their swords, entered boldly into the city, and slew all the men:
26. And they killed also Hemor and Sichem, and took away their sister Dina, out of Sichem's house.
27. And when they were gone out, the other sons of Jacob came upon the slain; and plundered the city in revenge of the rape.
28. And they took their sheep and their herds and their asses, wasting all they had in their houses and in the fields,