²² Only on this condition will the men consent to dwell with us and be one people: if every male among us will be circumcised as they are circumcised. ²³ Will not their livestock and their possessions and every animal of theirs be ours? Only, let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us.”

²⁴ All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and Shechem his son, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.