“And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:”
Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob's sons replied deceitfully to Shechem and his father Hamor. The narrator's evaluation — they replied deceitfully — is the moral assessment before the plan is described. The response of the brothers will use the covenant rite of circumcision as an instrument of revenge. The application: even righteous anger, when it deploys deception as its instrument, is named by the narrator for what it is.
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