Why be circumcised? I can understand doing it as an adult to obey God, but just to make a buck? However, this is how Shechem and Hamor convinced their men to join with them in this act.
The plan was simple. Do this one thing and then absorb Jacob's clan and his wealth into their families by marriage. Theft by marriage, something nobles would do for millennium. When we see this we realize that as horrible as the act of Levi and Simeon was the people they killed weren't innocent either. They were willing to ignore the rape and accept circumcision* just to gain wealth.
At the end of the chapter, the only innocent person I see here is Dinah.
*Circumcision was to be an act supposed to symbolize a commitment to God. As I see it, doing it for their reasons was blasphemous.
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