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,
29. and their children and wives they took captive,
30. And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land: we are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house, shall be destroyed.