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.
17 But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.”
18 Their words seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.