Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully.
In context
11Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give whatever you ask. 12Set the bride price and the gift as high as you like, and I will pay whatever you ask of me. Only give me the girl as my wife.” 13Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully. 14They said to them, “We cannot do this — we cannot give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised. That would be a disgrace to us. 15We will agree to this only on one condition: that you become like us by circumcising every male among you.
