7. Jacob’s sons had already come in from the field when they heard, and the men were deeply grieved and furious, because he had committed a vile deed in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, which ought never to be done.
8. But Hamor spoke with them saying, “My son Shechem—he’s very attached to your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife.
9. Intermarry with us. You can give your daughters to us, and you can take our daughters for yourselves.
10. You can live with us, and the land will be open to you: live in it, move about freely in it, and settle down in it.”
11. Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, “Would that I find favor in your eyes! Whatever you say to me I’ll give.
12. Set the dowry and the presents as high as you like and I’ll give whatever you say to me. But give me the young woman as a wife.”
13. But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully as they spoke, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.
14. They said to them, “We can’t do this thing—give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised—for this is a disgrace to us.
15. Only by this will we consent to you: if you will become like us, by circumcising every male.
16. Then we’ll give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves, and live with you, and become one people.
17. But if you don’t listen to us and be circumcised, we’ll take our daughter and leave.”
18. Now their words seemed good to Hamor as well as Hamor’s son Shechem.
19. So the young man did not hesitate to do it, since he delighted in Jacob’s daughter. Now he was honored above everyone else in his father’s house.