Genesis 34
1 Dinah, Jacob and Leah's daughter, went to visit some of the local women.
Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had by Jacob, went out to see the women of that country.
2 Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her. He grabbed hold of her and raped her.
And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had connection with her.
3 However, then he fell deeply in love with Dinah and tried to get her to love him too.
Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.
4 He went and asked his father, “Get this young girl for me so I can marry her.”
And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.
5 Jacob found out that Shechem had violated his daughter Dinah, but as his sons were away looking after the flocks in the fields he didn't say anything until they came home.
Now Jacob had word of what Shechem had done to his daughter; but his sons were in the fields with the cattle, and Jacob said nothing till they came.
6 In the meantime Hamor, Shechem's father, arrived to talk with Jacob.
Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, came out to have a talk with Jacob.
7 When Jacob's sons returned from the fields they were very upset when they heard the news and became extremely angry because Shechem had done something outrageous in Israel by having sex with Jacob's daughter—something that should never be done.
Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done.
8 Hamor told them, “My son Shechem is very much in love with your daughter and your sister Dinah. Please allow him to marry her.
But Hamor said to them, Shechem, my son, is full of desire for your daughter: will you then give her to him for a wife?
9 In fact we can have more marriages—you can give us your daughters and you can have our daughters.
And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
10 You can live among us and settle down wherever you like. You can go where you want and buy land for yourselves.”
Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.
11 Then Shechem himself spoke up, and said to Dinah's father and brothers, “Please accept me and my proposal, and I'll do whatever you ask.
And Shechem said to her father and her brothers, If you will give ear to my request, whatever you say I will give to you.
12 You can set the bride price as high as you like, and I'll pay it along with all the gifts I'll give. Just let me have the girl so I can marry her.”
However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.
13 Jacob's sons weren't honest when they answered him and his father Hamor because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.
But the sons of Jacob gave a false answer to Shechem and Hamor his father, because of what had been done to Dinah their sister.
14 They told them, “We can't do this! We can't allow our sister to marry a man who's not circumcised. That would bring disgrace on us.
And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us:
15 We will only agree to it with this condition: all of you must be circumcised like us.
But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;
16 Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters, and we will live among you and become one family.
Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on living with you as one people.
17 But if you don't agree with us that you should be circumcised, then we'll take our sister and leave.”
But if you will not undergo circumcision as we say, then we will take our daughter and go.
18 Hamor and his son Shechem agreed to what was proposed.
And their words were pleasing to Hamor and his son Shechem.
19 The young man Shechem didn't waste any time in arranging this because he was infatuated with Jacob's daughter, and he was viewed as the most important person in his father's family.
And without loss of time the young man did as they said, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was the noblest of his father's house.
20 Hamor and Shechem went to the town gate and spoke to the other leaders there.
Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town,
21 “These men are our friends,” they told them. “Let's have them live here in our country and allow them to go wherever they want—it's big enough for all of them too. We can take their daughters as wives, and we can give our daughters to them to marry.
It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.
22 But they will only agree to this on one condition: they will only join us and become one family if every male among us is circumcised like they are.
But these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to become one people, only on the condition that every male among us undergoes circumcision as they have done.
23 If that happens, won't all their livestock and property—all their animals—end up belonging to us? We just have to agree to this and they will come and live among us.”
Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.
24 Everyone there at the town gate agreed with Hamor and Shechem so every male in the town was circumcised.
Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision.
25 Three days later while they were still suffering pain, Simeon and Levi, two of Jacob's sons and Dinah's brothers, came with their swords into the town. Unopposed, they slaughtered every male.
But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put all the males to death.
26 They killed Hamor and Shechem with their swords, took Dinah from Shechem's house, and left.
And Hamor and his son they put to death with the sword, and they took Dinah from Shechem's house and went away.
27 Jacob's other sons arrived, robbed the dead bodies, and looted the town where their sister had been violated.
And the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded and made waste the town because of what had been done to their sister;
28 They took their sheep, goats, cattle, and donkeys. They took whatever was in the town, and in the fields—
They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fields,
29 all their possessions. They captured all their women and children, and plundered everything in their homes.
And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.
30 But Jacob criticized Simeon and Levi, telling them, “You've just caused me a lot of trouble! You've made me like a bad smell among the people in this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I only have a few men, and if these people gather to attack me, I and my whole family will be wiped out.”
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.
31 But they replied, “Should we have let him treat our sister like a prostitute?”
But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?
