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.
19 The 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 house.
20 So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men there.