19. The young man did not delay to do the thing, because he wanted Jacob’s daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of his father.
20. So Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and they spoke with the men of their city, saying,
21. “These men are at peace with us. Therefore let them dwell in the land and trade in it. For the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters as our wives, and let us give them our daughters.
22. Only on this condition will the men consent to dwell with us and be one people: if every male among us will be circumcised as they are circumcised.
23. Will not their livestock and their possessions and every animal of theirs be ours? Only, let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us.”
24. All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and Shechem his son, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
25. On the third day, when they were in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and went to the unsuspecting city and killed all the males.
26. They killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword and took Dinah out of the house of Shechem and departed.
27. The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and looted the city, because they had defiled their sister.
28. They took their flocks and their herds, their donkeys and whatever was in the city and in the fields.
29. They took captive and looted all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, even all that was in each house.
30. Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me revolting among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. Our being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and slay me, and I will be destroyed, both I and my household.”
31. But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?”