10. You can settle among us; the land is open to you. Live in it, trade in it, and acquire property in it.”
11. Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask.
12. Make the price for the bride and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I’ll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the young woman as my wife.”
13. Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob’s sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor.
14. They said to them, “We can’t do such a thing; we can’t give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us.
15. We will enter into an agreement with you on one condition only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males.
16. Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We’ll settle among you and become one people with you.
17. But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we’ll take our sister and go.”
18. Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.
19. The young man, who was the most honored of all his father’s family, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.
20. So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city to speak to the men of their city.
21. “These men are friendly toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and trade in it; the land has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters and they can marry ours.