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 will be circumcised, 16then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will live with you and become one people. 17But if you do not listen to us to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.”

18Now their words seemed 1reasonable to Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son. 19The young man did not delay to do 2this, 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 people of their city, saying, 21“These men are 4friendly to us; therefore let them live in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is 5large enough for them. We will take their daughters 6in marriage, and give our daughters to them. 22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised. 23Will their livestock and their property and all their animals not be ours? Let’s just consent to them, and they will live with us.” 247All 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--8Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers--each took his sword and came upon the city undetected, 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 left. 27Jacob’s sons came upon those killed and looted the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28They took their flocks, 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 everything that was in the houses. 30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have 9brought trouble on me by 10making me repulsive among the inhabitants of the land, among 11the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and 1213since my men are few in number, they will band together against me and 14attack me, and I will be destroyed, I and my household!” 31But they said, “Should he 15treat our sister like a prostitute?”