Genesis 34:13-31

13Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.

14They said to them, “We cannot give our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace to us.

15We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.

16Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.

17But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart.”

18Their offer pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.

19The young man did not delay in doing what they asked because he wanted Jacob’s daughter Dinah badly. (Now he was more important than anyone in his father’s household.)

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

21“These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry.

22Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.

23If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”

24All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.

25In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city and slaughtered every male.

26They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and left.

27Jacob’s sons killed them and looted the city because their sister had been violated.

28They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.

29They captured as plunder all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.

30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought ruin on me by making me a foul odor among the inhabitants of the land – among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!”

31But Simeon and Levi replied, “Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?”