Genesis:34:15-31
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But in this will we consent unto you :
If ye will be as we be ,
that every male of you be circumcised ;
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Then will we give our daughters unto you ,
and we will take your daughters to us ,
and we will dwell with you ,
and we will become one people .
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But if ye will not hearken unto us ,
to be circumcised ;
then will we take our daughter ,
and we will be gone .
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And their words pleased Hamor ,
and Shechem Hamor '
s son .
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And the young man deferred not to do the thing ,
because he had delight in Jacob '
s daughter :
and he was more honourable than all the house of his father .
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And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city ,
and communed with the men of their city ,
saying ,
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These men are peaceable with us ;
therefore let them dwell in the land ,
and trade therein ;
for the land ,
behold ,
it is large enough for them ;
let us take their daughters to us for wives ,
and let us give them our daughters .
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Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us ,
to be one people ,
if every male among us be circumcised ,
as they are circumcised .
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Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours ?
only let us consent unto them ,
and they will dwell with us .
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And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city ;
and every male was circumcised ,
all that went out of the gate of his city .
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And it came to pass on the third day ,
when they were sore ,
that two of the sons of Jacob ,
Simeon and Levi ,
Dinah '
s brethren ,
took each man his sword ,
and came upon the city boldly ,
and slew all the males .
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And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword ,
and took Dinah out of Shechem '
s house ,
and went out .
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The sons of Jacob came upon the slain ,
and spoiled the city ,
because they had defiled their sister .
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They took their sheep ,
and their oxen ,
and their asses ,
and that which was in the city ,
and that which was in the field ,
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And all their wealth ,
and all their little ones ,
and their wives took they captive ,
and spoiled even all that was in the house .
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And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi ,
Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land ,
among the Canaanites and the Perizzites :
and I being few in number ,
they shall gather themselves together against me ,
and slay me ;
and I shall be destroyed ,
I and my house .
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And they said ,
Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot ?