And the sons of Jacobcame out of the fieldwhentheyheard it: and the men weregrieved, and theywereverywroth, because he had wroughtfolly in Israel in lyingwithJacob’sdaughter; whichthingought not to be done.
These men are peaceablewith us; therefore let themdwell in the land, and tradetherein; for the land, behold, it is largeenough for them; let us taketheirdaughters to us for wives, and let us givethem our daughters.
And untoHamor and untoShechem his son hearkened all thatwent out of the gate of his city; and everymale was circumcised, all thatwent out of the gate of his city.
And it came to pass on the third day, whentheyweresore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’sbrethren, tookeach man his sword, and cameupon the cityboldly, and slew all the males.
And Jacobsaid to Simeon and Levi, Ye havetroubled me to make me to stinkamong the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, theyshallgatherthemselvestogetheragainst me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.