14. The brothers said to them, “We cannot allow our sister to marry you because you are not yet circumcised. That would bring us shame.
15. But we will allow you to marry her if you do this one thing: Every man in your town must be circumcised like us.
16. Then your men can marry our women, and our men can marry your women. Then we will become one people.
17. If you refuse to be circumcised, we will take Dinah away.”
18. This agreement made Hamor and Shechem very happy.
19. Shechem was very happy to do what Dinah’s brothers asked. Shechem was the most honored man in his family.
20. Hamor and Shechem went to the meeting place of their city. They spoke to the men of the city and said,