10. Thus you can live among us. The land is open before you. Settle and move about freely in it and acquire holdings here.”
11. Then Shechem appealed to Dinah’s father and brothers: “Do me this favor, and whatever you ask from me, I will give.
12. No matter how high you set the bridal price and gift, I will give you whatever you ask from me; only give me the young woman as a wife.”
13. Jacob’s sons replied to Shechem and his father Hamor with guile, speaking as they did because he had defiled their sister Dinah.
14. They said to them, “We are not able to do this thing: to give our sister to an uncircumcised man. For that would be a disgrace for us.
15. Only on this condition will we agree to that: that you become like us by having every male among you circumcised.
16. Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters in marriage; we will settle among you and become one people.
17. But if you do not listen to us and be circumcised, we will take our daughter and go.”
18. Their proposal pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.
19. The young man lost no time in acting on the proposal, since he wanted Jacob’s daughter. Now he was more highly regarded than anyone else in his father’s house.