Genesis 34:18-24

18This idea seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.

19Shechem's family respected him as an important person. So Shechem and his father quickly did what Jacob's sons told them. Shechem agreed to do it because he wanted very much to marry Dinah.

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

21They said, ‘Jacob's family are our friends. Let them live in our land, and buy and sell things. This land is big enough for them and us. We can marry their daughters, and they can marry our daughters.

22But we must do the one thing that they have asked us to do. We must circumcise all our males in the same way that they do. If we do that, they will agree to live among us.

23Then their things and their animals will all become our things. So we should agree to be circumcised, as they ask. Then they will live among us.’

24All the men who were at the city gate agreed with Hamor and Shechem. So every male in the city was circumcised.