Genesis 34:13–24

¹³Because their sister Dinah had been defiled,^e Jacob’s sons replied deceitfully^f as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor. ¹⁴They said to them, “We can’t do such a thing; we can’t give our sister to a man who is not circumcised.^g That would be a disgrace to us. ¹⁵We will enter into an agreement with you on one condition^h only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males.^{i 16}Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves.^j We’ll settle among you and become one people with you.^{k 17}But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we’ll take our sister and go.”

¹⁸Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem. ¹⁹The young man, who was the most honored^l of all his father’s family, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.^{m 20}So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their cityⁿ 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;^o the land has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters and they can marry ours.^{p 22}But the men will agree to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised,^q as they themselves are. ²³Won’t their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours?^r So let us agree to their terms, and they will settle among us.^s”

²⁴All the men who went out of the city gate^t agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.