Genesis 34:2-26

2Hamor the Hivite ruled that region. When his son, Shechem, saw Dinah, he took hold of her. Dinah could not get free and Shechem had sex with her.

3He liked Dinah very much. He loved her. He spoke kind words to her so that she would love him too.

4Shechem said to his father, Hamor, ‘I want to marry this girl. Please get her for me.’

5Jacob heard that Shechem had had sex with his daughter. At that time, Jacob's sons were taking care of his animals in the fields. So he did not do anything until his sons came home.

6Shechem's father, Hamor, went to talk to Jacob about Dinah.

7Jacob's sons now heard what had happened and they came home from the fields. They were very angry because Shechem had done such a bad thing. When he caught Dinah and had sex with her, he had brought shame on Jacob's family. It was a bad thing that nobody should ever do.

8Hamor said to Jacob and his sons, ‘My son Shechem loves your daughter. Please give her to him so that she can be his wife.

9There should be more marriages between your people and our people. Our men should marry your daughters and our daughters should become wives for your men.

10Then you can live among us. You can live anywhere you want to in this land. You should live here, buy and sell things. Buy land and houses here.’

11Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, ‘I would like to make you happy. So ask me for whatever you want and I will give it to you.

12I will pay you the gifts that you ask for Dinah. It can be as much as you like. I will pay it all, because I want to have Dinah as my wife.’

13Because of the bad thing that Shechem had done to Dinah, Jacob's sons decided to deceive him. And they deceived his father Hamor too.

14They said, ‘We cannot give our sister to a man who has not been circumcised. We would be ashamed to do this.

15If you want to marry Dinah, you must do one thing. You must circumcise all your males. Then you will become like us and we will agree for you to marry Dinah.

16Then we will give you our daughters so that your men can marry them. And our men will marry your daughters. We will live among you, so that we become one people with you.

17But your men must agree to be circumcised. If not, we will take our sister with us and we will leave this place.’

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.

25Three days after the men were circumcised, they still had a lot of pain. Then two of Jacob's sons attacked Shechem's men with their swords. None of the men were ready to fight. Jacob's two sons were Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers. They killed every male in the city.

26They killed Hamor and his son Shechem. Then they took Dinah from Shechem's house and they left.