17. But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.”
18. Their words seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.
19. The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father’s house.
20. So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men there.
21. “These men are peaceful toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and move about in it, for indeed, the region is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters as our wives and give our daughters to them.
22. But the men will agree to live with us and be one people only on this condition: if all our men are circumcised as they are.
23. Won’t their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will live with us.”