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.”
24. All the able-bodied men listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and all the able-bodied men were circumcised.
25. On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and killed every male.
26. They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and went away.
27. Jacob’s other sons came to the slaughter and plundered the city because their sister had been defiled.
28. They took their sheep, cattle, donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field.
29. They captured all their possessions, children, and wives and plundered everything in the houses.
30. Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me, making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
31. But they answered, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute? ”