Genesis 34:13–24

¹³But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah. ¹⁴“We cannot do this thing,” they said to them. “Giving our sister to an uncircumcised man is a disgrace to us. ¹⁵We will agree with you only on this condition: if all your males are circumcised as we are.^{n 16}Then we will give you our daughters, take your daughters for ourselves, live with you, and become one people. ¹⁷But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.”

¹⁸Their words seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem. ¹⁹The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father’s family. ²⁰So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city^a and spoke to the men of their city.

²¹“These men are peaceful toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and move about in it, for indeed, the region is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters as our wives and give our daughters to them. ²²But the men will agree to live with us and be one people only on this condition: if all our men are circumcised as they are. ²³Won’t their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let’s agree with them, and they will live with us.”

²⁴All the men^b who had come to the city gates listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and all those men were circumcised.