- "These men are friendly 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 in marriage, and give our daughters to them.
- "Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised.
- "Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will live with us."
- All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
- Now it came about on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and came upon the city unawares, and killed every male.
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- "These men are friendly toward us," they said. "Let them live in our land and trade in it; the land has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters and they can marry ours.
- But the men will consent to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised, as they themselves are.
- Won't their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours? So let us give our consent to them, and they will settle among us."
- All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.
- Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male.
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