15But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;
16Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on living with you as one people.
17But if you will not undergo circumcision as we say, then we will take our daughter and go.
18And their words were pleasing to Hamor and his son Shechem.
19And without loss of time the young man did as they said, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was the noblest of his father's house.
20Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town,
21It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.
