24. Now everyone who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, every one who went out the gate of his city.
25. Then on the third day while they were in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and came against the city undisturbed and killed every male.
26. Hamor and his son Shechem they killed with the sword, then took Dinah from Shechem’s house and left.
27. Jacob’s sons came upon the slain and plundered the city because they defiled their sister.
28. They took their flocks, their cattle and their donkeys, those that were in the city as well as those that were in the field.
29. All their wealth, their little children, and their wives they captured and plundered, as well as everything that was in the houses.
30. But Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You’ve brought trouble on me, making me a stench among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am but a few men—they’ll gather against me and strike me—then I’ll be destroyed, my household and I.”
31. But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?”