¹Now Dinah, Leah's daughter, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. ²And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, saw her, and he took her and lay with her and violated her. ³And his desire was fixed on Dinah, Jacob's daughter, and he was in love with the girl, and he spoke kindly to the girl. ⁴And Shechem spoke to Hamor his father and said, “Get me this girl for a wife.” ⁵And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter while his sons were with his cattle in the field, and Jacob kept silence until they came in. ⁶Then Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him. ⁷Then Jacob's sons came back from the field when they heard about it, and the men were aggrieved, and they became very much incensed that he had done a dishonourable thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing is not done. ⁸And Hamor spoke with them and said, “About Shechem my son – his whole being craves for your daughter. Be so good as to give her to him as a wife. ⁹And let us exchange in marriage. Give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves. ¹⁰And dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live in it and trade in it and have your interest in it.” ¹¹Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and her brothers, “If I find grace in your eyes, then I will give you whatever you say to me. ¹²Specify a large dowry and gift for me to give, and I will give it according to what you say to me, but give me the girl as a wife.” ¹³Then Jacob's sons answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and they spoke so because he had defiled Dinah their sister. ¹⁴And they said to them, “We cannot do this thing, giving our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it is a contemptible thing to us. ¹⁵But we can agree on this with you: if you become like us, in every male among you being circumcised, ¹⁶then we will give you our daughters, and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. ¹⁷But if you do not comply with us in being circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go our way.” ¹⁸And their words were pleasing in Hamor's sight, and the sight of Shechem the son of Hamor. ¹⁹And the lad did not delay in doing the thing, because he took delight in Jacob's daughter. Now he was held in more honour than all the household of his father. ²⁰Then Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and they spoke to the men of their city and said, ²¹“These men are peaceable towards us, and they will dwell in the land and trade in it. And as for the land, behold, it is very wide before them. We will take their daughters to ourselves as wives, and we will give our daughters to them. ²²But the men have agreed this with us: to dwell with us, to become one people, if we have ourselves circumcised – every male – as they are circumcised. ²³Their cattle and their possessions and all their livestock, are they not then ours? Just let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us.” ²⁴And all those who went out to the gate of his city heeded Hamor and Shechem his son, and all the males were circumcised – everyone who went out to the gate of his city. ²⁵And it came to pass on the third day, while they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and went to the city confidently, and they killed every male. ²⁶And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and they took Dinah out of Shechem's house and left. ²⁷The sons of Jacob went to the slain men and stripped the city, because they had defiled their sister. ²⁸And they took their sheep and their oxen and their donkeys and whatever was in the city, and they took whatever was in the field. ²⁹And they captured and stripped all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their women, and everything that was in the house. ³⁰But Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have caused me trouble, by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, to the Canaanite and the Perizzite, whereas I am few in number, and they could gather together against me and attack me, and I and my household would be destroyed.” ³¹But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?”