12 Ask me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; but give me the girl [a]in marriage.”

13 But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister. 14 They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to (A)one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 34:12 Lit for a wife