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,
21. “These people want to be friends with us. We want to let them live in our land and be at peace with us. We have enough land for all of us. We are free to marry their women, and we are happy to give them our women to marry.
22. But there is one thing that all our men must agree to do. They must agree to be circumcised as they are.
23. If we do this, we will become rich from all their cattle and other animals. We should make this agreement with them so that they will stay here with us.”