Dinah, the daughter of Leah and Jacob, was raped by Shechem who was the son of the regional ruler called Hamor the Hivite. Shechem asked his father to get Dinah for his wife because he loved her, but Dinah's brothers were furious about Shechem's act. Hamor tried to negotiate a solution for his son but Jacob's sons replied deceitfully. They said the only deal they would agree to for Shechem to marry Dinah was that all the Shechmite males would have to be circumcised in order to permit intermarriage between the Israelites and the Shechemites. This was agreed, but it was a trick, and once all the males were in pain from circumcision 2 of Dinah's brothers attacked them with swords killing Hamor, Shechem and all the male Shechemites! They looted the city and seized all their livestock, belongings, wives and children. Jacob was concerned that they had gone too far, but his sons insisted that it was the honourable thing to do because their sister had been treated like a prostitute.
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