13. Jacob’s sons decided to lie to Shechem and his father because Shechem had done such a bad thing to their sister Dinah.
14. The brothers said to them, “We cannot allow our sister to marry you because you are not yet circumcised. That would bring us shame.
15. But we will allow you to marry her if you do this one thing: Every man in your town must be circumcised like us.
16. Then your men can marry our women, and our men can marry your women. Then we will become one people.
17. If you refuse to be circumcised, we will take Dinah away.”