Genesis 34

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

Then Dinah, the daughter of Leah, went out to see the women of that region.

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 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.

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 his soul was closely bound to her, and, since she was sorrowful, he soothed her with flattery.

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

And going on to Hamor, his father, he said, “Obtain this girl for me as a mate.”

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.

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.

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

Then, when Hamor, the father of Shechem, had gone out to speak to Jacob,

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.

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.

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 so Hamor spoke to them: “The soul of my son Shechem has become attached to your daughter. Give her to him as a wife.

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

And let us celebrate marriages with one with another. Give us your daughters, and receive our daughters.

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

And live with us. The land is in your power: cultivate, trade, and possess 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 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.

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.”

Increase the dowry, and request gifts, and I will freely bestow what you will ask. Only give me this girl as a wife.”

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

The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father with deceit, being enraged at the rape of 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.

“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.

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

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.

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;

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.

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 be circumcised, we will take our daughter and withdraw.”

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

Their offer pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.

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.

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.

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 entering at the gate of the city, they spoke to the people:

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, 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.

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;

There is one thing that prevents so great a good: whether we will circumcise our males, imitating the ritual of their nation.

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 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.”

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 they all agreed to circumcise every one of the males.

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 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.

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.

They killed Hamor and Shechem together, taking their sister Dinah from the house of Shechem.

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

And when they had departed, the other sons of Jacob rushed over the slain, and they plundered the city in vengeance for the rape.

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;

Taking their sheep, and herds, and donkeys, and laying waste to everything else that was in their houses and in their fields,

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.

they also took their little ones and their wives captive.

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.”

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.”

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

They responded, “Should they abuse our sister like a prostitute?”