Genesis 34

1 And Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she has borne to Jacob, goes out to look on the daughters of the land,

And Dina, the daughter of Lea, whom she bore to Jacob, went forth to observe the daughters of the inhabitants.

2 and Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, sees her, and takes her, and lies with her, and humbles her;

And Sychem the son of Emmor the Evite, the ruler of the land, saw her, and took her and lay with her, and humbled her.

3 and his soul cleaves to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and he loves the young person, and speaks to the heart of the young person.

And he was attached to the soul of Dina the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and he spoke kindly to the damsel.

4 And Shechem speaks to his father Hamor, saying, “Take for me this girl for a wife.”

Sychem spoke to Emmor his father, saying, Take for me this damsel to wife.

5 And Jacob has heard that he has defiled his daughter Dinah, and his sons were with his livestock in the field, and Jacob kept silent until their coming.

And Jacob heard that the son of Emmor had defiled Dina his daughter (now his sons were with his cattle in the plain). And Jacob was silent until they came.

6 And Hamor, father of Shechem, goes out to Jacob to speak with him;

And Emmor the father of Sychem went forth to Jacob, to speak to him.

7 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 has done against Israel, to lie with the daughter of Jacob—and so it is not done.

And the sons of Jacob came from the plain; and when they heard, the men were deeply pained, and it was very grievous to them, because [the man] wrought folly in Israel, having lain with the daughter of Jacob, and so it must not be.

8 And Hamor speaks with them, saying, “Shechem, my son, his soul has cleaved to your daughter; please give her to him for a wife,

And Emmor spoke to them, saying, Sychem my son has chosen in his heart your daughter; give her therefore to him for a wife,

9 and join in marriage with us; you give your daughters to us, and you take our daughters for yourselves,

and intermarry with us. Give us your daughters, and take our daughters for your sons.

10 and you dwell with us, and the land is before you; dwell and trade [in] it, and have possessions in it.”

And dwell in the midst of us; and, behold, the land is spacious before you, dwell in it, and trade, and get possessions in it.

11 And Shechem says to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find grace in your eyes, and that which you say to me, I give;

And Sychem said to her father and to her brothers, I would find grace before you, and we will give whatever you shall name.

12 multiply on me dowry and gift exceedingly, and I give as you say to me, and give to me the young person for a wife.”

Multiply [your demand of] dowry very much, and I will give accordingly as you shall say to me, only you shall give me this damsel for a wife.

13 And the sons of Jacob answer Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, and they speak (because he defiled their sister Dinah),

And the sons of Jacob answered to Sychem and Emmor his father craftily, and spoke to them, because they had defiled Dina their sister.

14 and say to them, “We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to one who has a foreskin, for it [is] a reproach to us.

And Symeon and Levi, the brothers of Dina, said to them, We shall not be able to do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for it is a reproach to us.

15 Only for this we consent to you: if you are as we, to have every male of you circumcised,

Only on these terms will we conform to you, and dwell amongst you, if you also will be as we are, in that every male of you be circumcised.

16 then we have given our daughters to you, and we take your daughters for ourselves, and we have dwelt with you, and have become one people;

And we will give our daughters to you, and we will take of your daughters for wives to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will be as one race.

17 and if you do not listen to us to be circumcised, then we have taken our daughter, and have gone.”

But if you will not listen to us to be circumcised, we will take our daughter and depart.

18 And their words are good in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shechem, Hamor’s son;

And the words pleased Emmor, and Sychem the son of Emmor.

19 and the young man did not delay to do the thing, for he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he is honorable above all the house of his father.

And the young man delayed not to do this thing, for he was much attached to Jacob's daughter, and he was the most honourable of all in his father's house.

20 And Hamor comes—his son Shechem also—to the gate of their city, and they speak to the men of their city, saying,

And Emmor and Sychem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

21 “These men are peaceable with us; then let them dwell in the land, and trade [in] it; and the land, behold, [is] wide before them; their daughters let us take to ourselves for wives, and our daughters give to them.

These men are peaceful, let them dwell with us upon the land, and let them trade in it, and behold the land is extensive before them; we will take their daughters to us for wives, and we will give them our daughters.

22 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;

Only on these terms will the men conform to us to dwell with us so as to be one people, if every male of us be circumcised, as they also are circumcised.

23 their livestock, and their substance, and all their beasts—are they not ours? Only let us consent to them, and they dwell with us.”

And shall not their cattle and their herds, and their possessions, be ours? only in this let us conform to them, and they will dwell with us.

24 And to Hamor, and to his son Shechem, do all those going out of the gate of his city listen, and every male is circumcised, all those going out of the gate of his city.

And all that went in at the gate of their city listened to Emmor and Sychem his son, and they were circumcised in the flesh of their foreskin every male.

25 And it comes to pass, on the third day, in their being pained, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, take each his sword, and come in against the city confidently, and slay every male;

And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, the two sons of Jacob, Symeon and Levi, Dina's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city securely, and killed every male.

26 and Hamor, and his son Shechem, they have slain by the mouth of the sword, and they take Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and go out.

And they killed Emmor and Sychem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dina out of the house of Sychem, and went forth.

27 Jacob’s sons have come in on the wounded, and they spoil the city, because they had defiled their sister;

But the sons of Jacob came upon the wounded, and ravaged the city wherein they had defiled Dina their sister.

28 their flock and their herd, and their donkeys, and that which [is] in the city, and that which [is] in the field, have they taken;

And their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses they took, and all things whatever were in the city, and whatever were in the plain.

29 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.

And they took captive all the persons of them, and all their store, and their wives, and plundered both whatever things there were in the city, and whatever things there were in the houses.

30 And Jacob says to Simeon and to Levi, “You 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 struck me, and I have been destroyed, I and my house.”

And Jacob said to Symeon and Levi, You have made me hateful so that I should be evil to all the inhabitants of the land, both amongst the Chananites and the Pherezites, and I am few in number; they will gather themselves against me and cut me in pieces, and I shall be utterly destroyed, and my house.

31 And they say, “Does he make our sister as a harlot?”

And they said, Nay, but shall they treat our sister as an harlot?