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:
14 'We are not able to do what you ask, nor to give our sister to an uncircumcised man. For us, this is unlawful and abominable.
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