Genesis 34

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

One day Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the women in that area.

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;

Shechem, one of the sons of Hamor, the ruler of that area who was descended from the Hiv people-group, saw her. He wanted her. So he grabbed her and forced her to have sex [EUP] with him.

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.

He [SYN] was very much attracted to her, and fell in love with her, and he tried to get her to love him.

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

So Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Please get this girl for me. I want her to become my 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.

Jacob very soon found out that his daughter Dinah had been disgraced/defiled. But his sons were in the fields with his livestock, so he did nothing about it until they returned home.

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

In the meantime, Shechem’s father Hamor went to talk with 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.

While they were still talking, Jacob’s sons came in from the field. When they found out what had happened, they were shocked and very angry. They said, “Shechem has done something that is very disgraceful among us Israeli people, something that never should be done!”

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,

But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem really likes this girl. Please allow him to marry her.

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

Let’s make an agreement: You will give your daughters to our young men to be their wives, and we will give our daughters to your young men to be their wives.

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

You can live among us, and live anywhere in our land that you wish. You can buy and sell things (OR, travel around) and if you find land that you want, then you can buy 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;

Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “If you feel good toward me and do what I am asking for, I will give you whatever you ask for.

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.”

Tell me what gifts you want and what bride price you want, and I will give you what you ask for. I just want you to give the girl to me to be my wife.”

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

But because Shechem had done a shameful thing to their sister Dinah, the sons of Jacob deceived Shechem and his father Hamor

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.

by saying to them, “No, we cannot do that. We cannot give our sister to be the wife of a man who is not circumcised, because that would be a shameful thing for us to do.

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

We will do that only if you do one thing: You must become like us by circumcising all the males that are among you.

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 give our daughters to your young men to be your wives, and we will take your daughters to be the wives of our young men. We will live among you, and we will become one people-group.

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 agree to being circumcised, we will take our sister and go back to our land.”

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

What they said 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.

Shechem was very much in love with Jacob’s daughter, so he quickly agreed to do what they suggested.

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

Shechem went with Hamor to the meeting place near the city gate, and they spoke to the city leaders, 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 friendly toward us. We should let them live here and travel around (OR, buy and sell things) and if they find land that they want, they can buy it. There is plenty of land for them to live here. Our young men can marry their daughters, and their young men can marry 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;

But these men will agree to live among us and become one people-group with us only if all our males are circumcised, as they are.

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.”

But if we do that, just think! Their livestock and their possessions and their other animals will become ours [RHQ]! So we should agree to do what they suggest, and then they will live among 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.

Shechem was the most respected person in his father’s household, so all the men who were there at the city gate agreed to what Hamor and Shechem suggested. So every male in the city was circumcised.

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;

On the third day after that, when the men of the city were still sore because of being circumcised, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, who were Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and entered the city without anyone opposing them, and killed all the men.

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 even killed Hamor and his son Shechem. Then they took Dinah out of Shechem’s house and left the city.

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

Then the other sons of Jacob went into the city where all those dead bodies were. They (looted/took everything in) the city to get revenge for the shameful thing that had been done to 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;

They took away the people’s sheep and goats, their cattle, their donkeys, and everything else that they wanted from inside the city and from out in the countryside.

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 took away everything that was valuable, even the children and the women. They seized and took away everything that was 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.”

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have caused a lot of trouble for me! Now the Canaan people-group and the Perizzi people-group and everyone else who lives in this land will (hate me/say my name stinks)! I do not have many men to fight for us, so if they all gather together and come to me and attack us, they will destroy us and all our household!”

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

But they replied, “(Should we have allowed Shechem to treat our sister like a prostitute?/We could not just let Shechem treat our sister like a prostitute!)” [RHQ]