“Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.”
Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We'll settle among you and become one people with you. The offer of full integration — daughters, settlement, one people — is the bait that makes the condition seem worthwhile to Hamor and Shechem. The application: the generous offer that follows the impossible-seeming condition is the structure of the entrapment.
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