Bereshit 34

Then Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to look at the daughters of the people of the land.

And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the noble of the land, saw her; and he took her, and lay with her, and forced her.

And his soul clung to her; and he loved her, and spoke kindly with her.

And he said to Hamor his father: 'Take for me this maiden as a wife.'

And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the wilderness; and he held his peace until their coming.

And Hamor, father of Shechem, went out to Jacob, to speak with him about it.

And the sons of Jacob came from the wilderness when they heard; and the men were grieved, and it grew very hard upon them — for he had wrought an outrage against Israel, by lying with his daughter; and so should not be done.

And Hamor spoke with them, saying: 'My son Shechem — his soul is attached to your daughter; give her to him as a wife.

And intermarry with us — give us your daughters, and take our daughters.

And dwell with us; behold, the land is before you; settle, and trade in it, and possess it.'

And Shechem also said to her father and her brothers: 'Let me find favor with you; and whatever you say to me, I shall give.

Increase upon me greatly bride-price and gift; and I shall give as you say to me — only give me this maiden as a wife.'

And the sons of Jacob answered them with cunning, saying — for he had defiled Dinah their sister —

and they said to them: 'We cannot do this thing — to give our sister to a man who has a foreskin; for that is a disgrace to us.

But on this condition shall we consent to you: that you become as we are — that every male among you be circumcised.

Then we shall give you our daughters, and take your daughters; and we shall dwell with you, and become one people.

But if you shall not accept from us, and be circumcised — we shall take our daughter and go.'

And their words were pleasing in the eyes of Hamor and of Shechem his son.

And the youth did not delay to do the thing — for he desired Jacob's daughter; and he was the most honored of all his father's house.

And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their town, and addressed its dwellers, saying:

'These people are at peace with us — let them dwell in the land and trade in it; behold, the land is wide enough before them. Let us take their daughters as wives, and give them our daughters.

But on this condition will the people consent to dwell with us, and to become one people: that every male of ours be circumcised, as they are circumcised.

Their livestock and their cattle and their beasts and the rest of their property — shall it not become ours? Only let us consent to them on this — and they shall dwell with us.'

And all who went out of the gate of his town accepted from Hamor and from Shechem his son; and every male of them was circumcised.

And on the third day, while they were in pain — Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword; and they came upon them while they were unaware, and killed every male.

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

The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered what was in the town — because they had defiled their sister.

And their flocks, and their cattle, and their donkeys, and what was in the town, and what was in the fields, they took.

And all their property, and their little ones, and their wives — they took captive, and plundered, and all that was in the houses.

Then Jacob said to Simeon and to Levi: 'You have brought disgrace upon me, and corrupted my standing with the dwellers of the land — the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And I am a small clan of countable [number]; they shall gather against me and kill me, and I and my household shall perish.'

They said: 'Shall he treat our sister as a prostitute?'