1And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her; and he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her. 3And his soul clung to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman, and spoke kindly to the young woman. 4And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Get me this young woman as wife. 5Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they came. 6And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him. 7And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done. 8And Hamor spoke with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter: please give her to him as wife. 9And make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you. 10And you shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade in it, and get possessions in it. 11And Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, Let me find favor in your eyes, and what you shall say to me I will give. 12Ask me ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as you say to me: but give me the young woman as wife. 13And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, 14and said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that would be a reproach to us. 15Only on this condition we will consent to you: if you will be as we are, that every male of you is circumcised; 16then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. 17But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised; then we will take our daughter, and we will go. 18And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son. 19And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was honored above all the house of his father. 20And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke with the men of their city, saying, 21These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade in it; for, behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. 22Only on this condition the men will consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised. 23Shall not their cattle and their possessions and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us. 24And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city. 25And it happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and slew all the males. 26And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went forth. 27The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28They took their flocks and their herds and their donkeys, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field; 29and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, they took captive and made a prey, even all that was in the house. 30And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and strike me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house. 31And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?