9 And let us celebrate marriages with one with another. Give us your daughters, and receive our daughters.
10 And live with us. The land is in your power: cultivate, trade, and possess it.'
11 And Shechem even said to her father and to her brothers: 'May I find favor in your sight, and whatever you will appoint, I will give.
12 Increase the dowry, and request gifts, and I will freely bestow what you will ask. Only give me this girl as a wife.'
13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father with deceit, being enraged at the rape of their sister:
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