10 Live with us. The land is before you. Settle here, move about, and acquire property in it.”
11 Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I’ll give you whatever you say.
12 Demand of me a high compensation and gift; I’ll give you whatever you ask me. Just give the girl to be my wife! ”
13 But 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.
15 We will agree with you only on this condition: if all your males are circumcised as we are.
16 Then we will give you our daughters, take your daughters for ourselves, live with you, and become one people.