Genesis 34:15–22

¹⁵‘Only for this we consent to you; if ye be as we, to have every male of you circumcised, ¹⁶then we have given our daughters to you, and your daughters we take to ourselves, and we have dwelt with you, and have become one people; ¹⁷and if ye hearken not unto us to be circumcised, then we have taken our daughter, and have gone.’

¹⁸And their words are good in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shechem, Hamor’s son; ¹⁹and the young man delayed not to do the thing, for he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he is honourable above all the house of his father. ²⁰And Hamor cometh—Shechem his son also—unto the gate of their city, and they speak unto the men of their city, saying, ²¹‘These men are peaceable with us; then let them dwell in the land, and trade in it; and the land, lo, is wide before them; their daughters let us take to ourselves for wives, and our daughters give to them.

²²‘Only for this do the men consent to us, to dwell with us, to become one people, in every male of us being circumcised, as they are circumcised;