Genesis 34:8-22

New International Version

⁸ But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.^{(A) 9} Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.^{(B) 10} You can settle among us;^(C) the land is open to you.^(D) Live in it, trade^[a] in it,^(E) and acquire property in it.^(F)”

¹¹ Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes,^(G) and I will give you whatever you ask. ¹² Make the price for the bride^(H) and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I’ll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the young woman as my wife.”

¹³ Because their sister Dinah had been defiled,^(I) Jacob’s sons replied deceitfully^(J) as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor. ¹⁴ They said to them, “We can’t do such a thing; we can’t give our sister to a man who is not circumcised.^(K) That would be a disgrace to us. ¹⁵ We will enter into an agreement with you on one condition^(L) only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males.^{(M) 16} Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves.^(N) We’ll settle among you and become one people with you.^{(O) 17} But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we’ll take our sister and go.”

¹⁸ Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem. ¹⁹ The young man, who was the most honored^(P) of all his father’s family, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.^{(Q) 20} So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city^(R) to speak to the men of their city. ²¹ “These men are friendly toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and trade in it;^(S) the land has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters and they can marry ours.^{(T) 22} But the men will agree to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised,^(U) as they themselves are.