1 Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land.
2 Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that region, saw her; he seized her, lay with her, and violated her.
3 His heart clung to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the girl and spoke to her heart.
4 Shechem said to his father Hamor, "Take this girl for me as my wife."
5 Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but his sons were out in the fields with his livestock, so Jacob kept silent until they came home.
6 Meanwhile Shechem's father Hamor went out to Jacob to talk with him.
7 Jacob's sons came in from the fields as soon as they heard of it. The men were deeply hurt and burning with anger, because Shechem had committed a disgraceful act in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, a thing that should never be done.
8 Hamor talked with them and said, "My son Shechem has set his heart on your daughter. Please let him have her as his wife.
9 Intermarry with us: give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.
10 You can settle among us; the land will lie open before you. Live in it, move about in it freely, and acquire property in it."
11 Shechem also said to Dinah's father and brothers, "Let me find favor with you, and I will give whatever you ask of me.
12 Set the bride-price and the gift as high as you like, and I will pay whatever you tell me. Only give me the girl as my wife."
13 Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, speaking as they did because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah.
14 They told them, "We cannot do such a thing as give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised; that would be a disgrace for us.
15 We will consent to you on one condition only: that you become like us by having every male among you circumcised.
16 Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves; we will live among you and become a single people.
17 But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, we will take our daughter and leave."
18 What they said pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.
19 The young man lost no time in doing it, for he was delighted with Jacob's daughter. He was also the most respected member of his father's household.
20 Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city.
21 "These men are friendly toward us," they said. "Let them live in the land and move about in it freely; the land, as you can see, has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters, and we can give them our daughters.
22 But the men will consent to live among us and become a single people only on this condition: that every male among us be circumcised, just as they are circumcised.
23 Their livestock, their goods, and all their animals, will they not be ours? Let us just consent to their terms, and they will settle among us."
24 All the men who went out through the gate of the city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out through the gate of his city.
25 Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed every male.
26 They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword, took Dinah from Shechem's house, and left.
27 Jacob's sons came upon the dead and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.
28 They carried off their flocks, their herds, and their donkeys, and everything else in the city and out in the fields.
29 All their wealth, all their little children and their wives, they took captive and carried away as plunder, along with everything in the houses.
30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought ruin on me by making me a stench to the people who live in the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number; if they join forces against me and attack me, I will be wiped out, I and my household."
31 But they said, "Was he to treat our sister like a prostitute?"