Genesis:34:15-31

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* But in this we will agree with you , if you will be as we [are ], that every male of you be circumcised , * then we will give our daughters to you , and we will take your daughters to us , and we will live with you , and we will become one people . * But if you will not listen to us , to be circumcised , then we will take our daughter , and we will go . * And their words pleased Hamor and Shechem , Hamor 's son . * And the young man did not hesitate to do the thing , because he had delight in Jacob 's daughter . And he [was ] more honorable than all the house of his father . * And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city , and talked with the men of their city , saying , * These men [are ] at peace with us . Therefore let them live 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 . * Only on this [condition ] will the men agree to us , to live with us , to be one people , if every male among us is circumcised as they [are ] circumcised . * [Shall ] not their cattle and their substance and every animal of theirs be ours ? Only let us agree with them , and they will live with us . * And all that went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to Shechem his son . And every male was circumcised , all that went out of the gate of his city . * And 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 his sword and came upon the city boldly , and killed all the males . * And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword , and took Dinah out of Shechem 's house , and went out . * The sons of Jacob came upon the slain , and plundered the city , because they had defiled their sister . * They took their sheep and their oxen , and their asses , and that which [was ] in the city and that which [was ] in the field . * And all their wealth , and all their little ones , and their wives , they took captive , and plundered even all that [was ] in the house . * And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi , You have troubled me , to make me stink among those who live in the land , among the Canaanites and the Perizzites . And I , [being ] few in number , they shall gather themselves together against me , and kill me . And I shall be destroyed , my house and I . * And they said , Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot ?

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