1And Dinah went out, the daughter of Leah whom she had borne to Jacob, to see the daughters of the land.2Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the land, saw her, and he took her and lay with her and humbled her.3And his vital life force clung to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl, and he spoke to the heart of the girl.4Shechem said to Hamor his father, "Take this girl for me as a wife."5And Jacob heard that he had made Dinah his daughter cultically impure, and his sons were with his livestock in the field, and Jacob was silent until they came.6Hamor went out, the father of Shechem, to Jacob to speak with him.7And the sons of Jacob came from the field when they heard it, and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a disgraceful act in Israel to lie with the daughter of Jacob—so such a thing should not be done.8Hamor spoke to them, saying, "Shechem my son—his vital life force has desired your daughter. Give her to him as a wife now."9And let us intermarry with you: you shall give your daughters to us, and you shall take our daughters for yourselves.10And you dwell, and the land will be before you; dwell and trade and take hold of it.11And Shechem said to his father and to his brothers, "I will find favor in your eyes, and what you say to me I will give."12Increase it upon me very much, very quickly, and gift, and I will give according as you say to me, and give the young man the woman.13And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit and spoke that he had defiled their sister Dinah.14And they said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who has foreskin to him, for it is a reproach to us."15Only in this way will we agree to you if you become like us by circumcising every male among you.16and we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will dwell with you, and we will be one people.17And if you do not listen to us and circumcise, we will take our daughter and go.18And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and in the eyes of Shechem son of Hamor.19And the young man did not delay to do the word, because he desired 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 they spoke to the men of their city, saying:21These men are at peace with us, and let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for the land—behold—is spacious enough for them. Let us take their daughters for our wives, and let us give our daughters to them.22Only in this way will these men agree to dwell with us to become one people: if we circumcise every male among us, just as they are circumcised.23Their livestock and their possessions and all their cattle—are they not ours? Only let them be pleased, and they will dwell with us.24And they listened to Hamor and to Shechem his son, all who went out of the gate of his city, and they circumcised every male, all who went out of the gate of his city.25And it was on the third day, when they were sore, that the two sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each with his sword, came upon the city securely and killed every male.26And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the sword, and they took Dinah from the house of Shechem, and they went out.27The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, which they had made unclean—their sister.28Their sheep and their cattle and their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and whatever was in the field, they took.29and their entire strength and their entire little ones and their women they took captive, and they plundered everything that was in the house.30Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me stink among the inhabitants of the land, among Canaanites and Perizzites. I am few in number, and they will gather against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."31And they said, "Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?"