9. Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
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.