¹And Dinah went out, the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, to look on the daughters of the land.

²And Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, chief of the land, saw her; and he took her, and lay with her, and he humbled her.

³And his being clung to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob; and he loved the girl; and he spoke to the heart of the girl.

⁴And Shechem said to Hamor his father, saying, Take this girl for me as a wife.

⁵Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah; but his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob kept silent until they came in.

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; and the men were grieved, and it burned hot in them greatly, for he had done an outrage in Israel by lying with the daughter of Jacob; and such a thing is not done.

⁸And Hamor spoke with them, saying, Shechem my son, his being is attached to your daughter; please give her to him as a wife.

⁹Intermarry with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

¹⁰And you will dwell with us; and the land will lie before your face; dwell, and go about in it, and take hold in it.

¹¹And Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me, I will give.

¹²Increase the bride price and gift upon me greatly, and I will give as you say to me; and give me the girl as a wife.

¹³And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

¹⁴And they said to them, We cannot do this word, to give our sister to a man who has a foreskin; for it is a reproach to us.

¹⁵Only in this will we agree to you: if you become like us, every male of you being circumcised.

¹⁶Then we will give our daughters to you, and take your daughters for ourselves, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

¹⁷And if you will not listen to us to be circumcised, we will take our daughter and we will go.

¹⁸And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shechem, the son of Hamor.

¹⁹And the youth did not delay to do the word, for he delighted in the daughter of Jacob; and he was honored more than all the house of his father.

²⁰And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

²¹These men are at peace with us; let them dwell in the land and go about in it; and the land, look, is wide on every hand before their face. Their daughters we will take for ourselves as wives, and our daughters we will give to them.

²²Only in this will the men agree to us, to dwell with us and become one people: when every male of us is circumcised, just as they are circumcised.

²³Their livestock and their possessions and all their animals—will they not be ours? Only let us agree to them, and they will dwell with us.

²⁴And all those 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, while they were in pain, that Shimon and Levi, two of Jacob's sons, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and came upon the city while it felt secure, and killed every male.

²⁶And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah from the house of Shechem, and went out.

²⁷The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

²⁸They took their flocks, their cattle and their donkeys, and what was in the city and what was in the field.

²⁹They took captive all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, and plundered everything that was in the house.

³⁰And Jacob said to Shimon and to Levi: You have troubled me, making me stink among those who dwell in the land, among the Canaanite and the Perizzite. I am few in number; they will gather against me and strike me, and I will be wiped out, I and my household.

³¹And they said, "Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?"