
22These people will consent to live with us and become one nation on one condition: Every male must be circumcised as they are. 23Won't their livestock, their personal property, and all their animals be ours? We only need to agree to do this for them. Then they'll live with us." 24All the men who had come out to the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. So they were all circumcised at the city gate. 25Two days later, while the men were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and boldly attacked the city. They killed every man 26including Hamor and his son Shechem. They took Dinah from Shechem's home and left. 27Then Jacob's sons stripped the corpses and looted the city where their sister had been dishonored. 28They took the sheep and goats, cattle, donkeys, and whatever else was in the city or out in the fields. 29They carried off all the wealth and all the women and children and looted everything in the houses. 30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have caused me a lot of trouble! You've made the people living in the area, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, hate me. There are only a few of us. If they join forces against me and attack me, my family and I will be wiped out." 31Simeon and Levi asked, "Should Shechem have been allowed to treat our sister like a prostitute?"
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