11. Shechem also talked to Jacob and to Dinah’s brothers. He said, “Please accept my offer. I will give anything you ask.
12. Ask as much as you want for the payment for the bride. I will give it to you. Just let me marry Dinah.”
13. The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father with lies. They were angry because Shechem had disgraced their sister Dinah.
14. The brothers said to them, “We cannot allow you to marry our sister. You are not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us.
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 live in your land and become one people.
17. If you refuse to be circumcised, we will take Dinah and leave.”
18. What they asked seemed fair to Hamor and Shechem.
19. So Shechem went quickly to be circumcised because he loved Jacob’s daughter.Now Shechem was the most respected man in his family.
20. So Hamor and Shechem went to the gate of their city. They spoke to the men of their city. They said,
21. “These people want to be friends with us. So let them live in our land and trade here. There is enough land for all of us. Let us marry their women. And we can let them marry our women.