[The Pentateuch]

Then the sons of Jacob answered to Shechem and Hemor his father deceitfully / because he had defiled Dinah their sister. And they said unto them / we can not do this thing / that we should give our sister to one that is uncircumcised / for that were a shame unto us. Only in this will we consent unto you? If ye will ⟨p. xlix⟩be as we be / that all the men children among you be circumcised / than will we give our daughter to you and take yours to us / and will dwell with you and be one people. But and if ye will not hearken unto us to be circumcised / than will we take our daughter and goo our ways.

Then the sonnes of Iacob answered to Sichem ād Hemor his father deceytefully / because he had defyled Dina their syster. And they sayde vnto them / we can not do this thinge / yt we shulde geue oure syster to one that is vncircumcysed / for that were a shame vnto vs. Only in this will we consent vnto you? Yf ye will ⟨p. xlix⟩be as we be / that all the men childern amonge you be circumcysed / thā will we geue oure doughter to you and take youres to vs / and will dwell with you and be one people. But and yf ye will not harken vnto vs to be circumcysed / than will we take oure doughter and goo oure wayes.

And their words pleased Hemor and Shechem his son. And the young man deferred not for to do the thing / because he had a lust to Jacobs daughter: he was also most set by of all that were in his fathers house. Than Hemor and Shechem went unto the gate of their city / and communed with the men of their city saying. These men are peaceable with us / & will dwell in the land and do their occupation therein And in the land is room enough for them / let us take their daughters to wives and give them ours: only herm will they consent unto us for to dwell with us and to be one people: if all the men children that are among us be circumcised as they are. Their goods & their substance and all their cattle are ours / only let us consent unto them / that they may dwell with us.