Genesis 34:15-31

15Only on this condition will we consent to you: if you will become like us, in that every male of you be circumcised, 16then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will 1live with you and become one people. 17But if you will not listen to us to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.”

18Now their words seemed 2reasonable to Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son. 19The young man did not delay to do the thing, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of his father. 20So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the 3gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying, 21“These men are 4friendly with us; therefore let them 5live in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is 6large enough for them. Let us take their daughters 7in marriage, and give our daughters to them. 22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to 8live with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised. 23Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will 9live with us.” 2410All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

25Now it came about on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob’s sons, 11Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and came upon the city unawares, and killed every male. 26They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and went forth. 27Jacob’s sons came upon the slain and looted the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28They took their flocks and their herds and their donkeys, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field; 29and they captured and looted all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives, even all that was in the houses. 30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have 12brought trouble on me by 13making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among 14the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and 1516my men being few in number, they will gather together against me and 17attack me and I will be destroyed, I and my household.” 31But they said, “Should he 18treat our sister as a harlot?”