Genesis 34
1 Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
Egressa est autem Dina filia Liæ ut videret mulieres regionis illius.
2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
Quam cum vidisset Sichem filius Hemor Hevæi, princeps terræ illius, adamavit eam: et rapuit, et dormivit cum illa, vi opprimens virginem.
3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
Et conglutinata est anima eius cum ea, tristemque delinivit blanditiis.
4 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”
Et pergens ad Hemor patrem suum, Accipe, inquit, mihi puellam hanc coniugem.
5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.
Quod cum audisset Iacob, absentibus filiis, et in pastu pecorum occupatis, siluit donec redirent.
6 Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.
Egresso autem Hemor patre Sichem ut loqueretur ad Iacob,
7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing that ought not to be done.
ecce filii eius veniebant de agro: auditoque quod acciderat, irati sunt valde, eo quod fœdam rem operatus esset in Israel et, violata filia Iacob, rem illicitam perpetrasset.
8 Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
Locutus est itaque Hemor ad eos: Sichem filii mei adhæsit anima filiæ vestræ: date eam illi uxorem:
9 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
et iungamus vicissim connubia: filias vestras tradite nobis, et filias nostras accipite.
10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”
Et habitate nobiscum: terra in potestate vestra est, exercete, negotiamini, et possidete eam.
11 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favour in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
Sed et Sichem ad patrem et ad fratres eius ait: Inveniam gratiam coram vobis: et quæcumque statueritis, dabo:
12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”
augete dotem, et munera postulate, et libenter tribuam quod petieritis: tantum date mihi puellam hanc uxorem.
13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
Responderunt filii Iacob Sichem et patri eius in dolo, sævientes ob stuprum sororis:
14 and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
Non possumus facere quod petitis, nec dare sororem nostram homini incircumciso: quod illicitum et nefarium est apud nos.
15 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,
Sed in hoc valebimus fœderari, si volueritis esse similes nostri, et circumcidatur in vobis omne masculini sexus;
16 then will we give our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
tunc dabimus et accipiemus mutuo filias vestras, ac nostras: et habitabimus vobiscum, erimusque unus populus:
17 But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”
si autem circumcidi nolueritis, tollemus filiam nostram, et recedemus.
18 Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.
Placuit oblatio eorum Hemor, et Sichem filio eius:
19 The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honoured above all the house of his father.
nec distulit adolescens quin statim quod petebatur expleret: amabat enim puellam valde, et ipse erat inclytus in omni domo patris sui.
20 Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
Ingressique portam urbis, locuti sunt ad populum:
21 “These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters.
Viri isti pacifici sunt, et volunt habitare nobiscum: negotientur in terra, et exerceant eam, quæ spatiosa et lata cultoribus indiget: filias eorum accipiemus uxores, et nostras illis dabimus.
22 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male amongst us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.
Unum est quo differtur tantum bonum: Si circumcidamus masculos nostros, ritum gentis imitantes.
23 Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”
Et substantia eorum, et pecora, et cuncta quæ possident, nostra erunt: tantum in hoc acquiescamus, et habitantes simul, unum efficiemus populum.
24 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
Assensique sunt omnes, circumcisis cunctis maribus.
25 On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
Et ecce, die tertio quando gravissimus vulnerum dolor est: arreptis, duo filii Iacob, Simeon et Levi fratres Dinæ, gladiis, ingressi sunt urbem confidenter: interfectisque omnibus masculis,
26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
Hemor et Sichem pariter necaverunt, tollentes Dinam de domo Sichem sororem suam.
27 Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Quibus egressis, irruerunt super occisos ceteri filii Iacob: et depopulati sunt urbem in ultionem stupri.
28 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,
Oves eorum, et armenta, et asinos, cunctaque vastantes quæ in domibus et in agris erant,
29 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.
parvulos quoque eorum et uxores duxerunt captivas.
30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, amongst the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”
Quibus patratis audacter, Iacob dixit ad Simeon et Levi: Turbastis me, et odiosum fecistis me Chananæis, et Pherezæis habitatoribus terræ huius. Nos pauci sumus: illi congregati percutient me, et delebor ego, et domus mea.
31 They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”
Responderunt: Numquid ut scorto abuti debuere sorore nostra?
