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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Genesis 34
⁴ So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get me this young girl for a wife."
⁵ Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; but his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob kept silent until they came in.
⁶ Then Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.
⁷ Now the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.
⁸ But Hamor spoke with them, saying, "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; please give her to him in marriage.
⁹ Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves.
¹⁰ Thus you shall live with us, and the land shall be open before you; live and trade in it and acquire property in it."
¹¹ Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, "If I find favor in your sight, then I will give whatever you say to me.
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 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 one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.