Genesis 34

1 Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had by Jacob, went out to see the women of that country.

2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled 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 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.

4 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”

And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.

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.

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 Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.

Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, came out to have a talk with Jacob.

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.

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 talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

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 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”

Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.

11 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.

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 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.”

However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.

13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

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 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.

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 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,

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 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.

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 will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”

But if you will not undergo circumcision as we say, then we will take our daughter and go.

18 Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.

And their words were pleasing to Hamor and his son Shechem.

19 The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.

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, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,

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 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.

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 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.

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 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.”

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 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.

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 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.

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, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.

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 sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

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 flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,

They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fields,

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.

And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.

30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among 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.”

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 They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”

But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?