20. So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and said to the men of their city:
21. “These men are friendly toward us. Let them settle in the land and move about in it freely; there is ample room in the land for them. We can take their daughters in marriage and give our daughters to them.
22. But only on this condition will the men agree to live with us and form one people with us: that every male among us be circumcised as they themselves are.
23. Would not their livestock, their property, and all their animals then be ours? Let us just agree with them, so that they will settle among us.”
24. All who went out of the gate of the city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and all the males, all those who went out of the gate of the city, were circumcised.
25. On the third day, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, brothers of Dinah, each took his sword, advanced against the unsuspecting city and massacred all the males.