Genesis 34:21
"These men are peaceful 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 to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
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6Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.
7The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
8Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
9Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
10You shall dwell with us: and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."
11Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
12Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
13The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
14and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
16then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
17But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister,{Hebrew has, literally, "daughter"} and we will be gone."
18Their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem, Hamor's son.
19The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.
20Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
- Gen 34:22-243 verses84%
22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
23Won't their cattle and their substance and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."
24All 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.
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4Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."
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2Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
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22It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty.
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26They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.
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7How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
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6and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
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30and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;