Genesis 34
1 Then Dinah, the daughter of Leah, went out to see the women of that region.
And Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she hath borne to Jacob, goeth out to look on the daughters of the land,
2 And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the leader of that land, had seen her, he fell in love with her. And so he seized her and slept with her, overwhelming the virgin by force.
and Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, seeth her, and taketh her, and lieth with her, and humbleth her;
3 And his soul was closely bound to her, and, since she was sorrowful, he soothed her with flattery.
and his soul cleaveth to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and he loveth the young person, and speaketh unto the heart of the young person.
4 And going on to Hamor, his father, he said, “Obtain this girl for me as a mate.”
And Shechem speaketh unto Hamor his father, saying, 'Take for me this damsel for a wife.'
5 But when Jacob had heard this, since his sons were absent and he was occupied in pasturing the cattle, he remained silent until they came back.
And Jacob hath heard that he hath defiled Dinah his daughter, and his sons were with his cattle in the field, and Jacob kept silent till their coming.
6 Then, when Hamor, the father of Shechem, had gone out to speak to Jacob,
And Hamor, father of Shechem, goeth out unto Jacob to speak with him;
7 behold, his sons arrived from the field. And hearing what had happened, they were very angry, because he had done a filthy thing in Israel and, in violating a daughter of Jacob, had perpetrated an unlawful act.
and the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard, and the men grieve themselves, and it [is] very displeasing to them, for folly he hath done against Israel, to lie with the daughter of Jacob — and so it is not done.
8 And so Hamor spoke to them: “The soul of my son Shechem has become attached to your daughter. Give her to him as a wife.
And Hamor speaketh with them, saying, 'Shechem, my son, his soul hath cleaved to your daughter; give her, I pray you, to him for a wife,
9 And let us celebrate marriages with one with another. Give us your daughters, and receive our daughters.
and join ye in marriage with us; your daughters ye give to us, and our daughters ye take to yourselves,
10 And live with us. The land is in your power: cultivate, trade, and possess it.”
and with us ye dwell, and the land is before you; dwell ye and trade [in] it, and have possessions in it.'
11 And Shechem even said to her father and to her brothers: “May I find favor in your sight, and whatever you will appoint, I will give.
And Shechem saith unto her father, and unto her brethren, 'Let me find grace in your eyes, and that which ye say unto me, I give;
12 Increase the dowry, and request gifts, and I will freely bestow what you will ask. Only give me this girl as a wife.”
multiply on me exceedingly dowry and gift, and I give as ye say unto me, and give to me the young person for a wife.'
13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father with deceit, being enraged at the rape of their sister:
And the sons of Jacob answer Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and they speak (because he defiled Dinah their sister),
14 “We are not able to do what you ask, nor to give our sister to an uncircumcised man. For us, this is unlawful and abominable.
and say unto them, 'We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to one who hath a foreskin: for it [is] a reproach to us.
15 But we may succeed in this, so as to be allied with you, if you are willing to become like us, and if all the male sex among you will be circumcised.
'Only for this we consent to you; if ye be as we, to have every male of you circumcised,
16 Then we will mutually give and receive your daughters as well as ours; and we will live with you, and we will become one people.
then we have given our daughters to you, and your daughters we take to ourselves, and we have dwelt with you, and have become one people;
17 But if you will not be circumcised, we will take our daughter and withdraw.”
and if ye hearken not unto us to be circumcised, then we have taken our daughter, and have gone.'
18 Their offer pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.
And their words are good in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shechem, Hamor's son;
19 Neither did the young man cause any delay; in fact he immediately fulfilled what was requested. For he loved the girl very much, and he was well-known throughout his father’s house.
and the young man delayed not to do the thing, for he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he is honourable above all the house of his father.
20 And entering at the gate of the city, they spoke to the people:
And Hamor cometh — Shechem his son also — unto the gate of their city, and they speak unto the men of their city, saying,
21 “These men are peaceful, and they want to live among us. Let them trade in the land and cultivate it, for, being spacious and broad, it is in need of cultivation. We will receive their daughters as wives, and we will give them ours.
'These men are peaceable with us; then let them dwell in the land, and trade [in] it; and the land, lo, [is] wide before them; their daughters let us take to ourselves for wives, and our daughters give to them.
22 There is one thing that prevents so great a good: whether we will circumcise our males, imitating the ritual of their nation.
'Only for this do the men consent to us, to dwell with us, to become one people, in every male of us being circumcised, as they are circumcised;
23 And their substance, and cattle, and all that they possess, will be ours, if only we will acquiesce to this, and so, in living together, will form one people.”
their cattle, and their substance, and all their beasts — are they not ours? only let us consent to them, and they dwell with us.'
24 And they all agreed to circumcise every one of the males.
And unto Hamor, and unto Shechem his son, hearken do all those going out of the gate of his city, and every male is circumcised, all those going out of the gate of his city.
25 And behold, on the third day, when the pain of the wound was greatest, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, boldly entered the city with swords. And they put to death all of the males.
And it cometh to pass, on the third day, in their being pained, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, take each his sword, and come in against the city confidently, and slay every male;
26 They killed Hamor and Shechem together, taking their sister Dinah from the house of Shechem.
and Hamor, and Shechem his son, they have slain by the mouth of the sword, and they take Dinah out of Shechem's house, and go out.
27 And when they had departed, the other sons of Jacob rushed over the slain, and they plundered the city in vengeance for the rape.
Jacob's sons have come in upon the wounded, and they spoil the city, because they had defiled their sister;
28 Taking their sheep, and herds, and donkeys, and laying waste to everything else that was in their houses and in their fields,
their flock and their herd, and their asses, and that which [is] in the city, and that which [is] in the field, have they taken;
29 they also took their little ones and their wives captive.
and all their wealth, and all their infants, and their wives they have taken captive, and they spoil also all that [is] in the house.
30 When they had boldly completed these acts, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: “You have troubled me, and you have made me hateful to the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few. They, gathering themselves together, may strike me down, and then both I and my house will be wiped away.”
And Jacob saith unto Simeon and unto Levi, 'Ye have troubled me, by causing me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanite, and among the Perizzite: and I [am] few in number, and they have been gathered against me, and have smitten me, and I have been destroyed, I and my house.'
31 They responded, “Should they abuse our sister like a prostitute?”
And they say, 'As a harlot doth he make our sister?'
