8 But Hamor made this appeal to them: “My son Shechem is in love with your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
9 Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.
10 You may live among us, and the land will be open to you. Live in it, travel freely in it, and acquire property in it.”
11 Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your sight, and whatever you require of me I’ll give.
12 You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, and I’ll give whatever you ask of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”
13 Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.
14 They said to them, “We cannot give our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace to us.