Genesis 34
1 Egressa est autem Dina filia Liæ ut videret mulieres regionis illius.
And Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she has borne to Jacob, goes out to look on the daughters of the land,
2 Quam cum vidisset Sichem filius Hemor Hevæi, princeps terræ illius, adamavit eam: et rapuit, et dormivit cum illa, vi opprimens virginem.
and Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, sees her, and takes her, and lies with her, and humbles her;
3 Et conglutinata est anima eius cum ea, tristemque delinivit blanditiis.
and his soul cleaves to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and he loves the young person, and speaks to the heart of the young person.
4 Et pergens ad Hemor patrem suum, Accipe, inquit, mihi puellam hanc coniugem.
And Shechem speaks to his father Hamor, saying, “Take for me this girl for a wife.”
5 Quod cum audisset Iacob, absentibus filiis, et in pastu pecorum occupatis, siluit donec redirent.
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.
6 Egresso autem Hemor patre Sichem ut loqueretur ad Iacob,
And Hamor, father of Shechem, goes out to Jacob to speak with him;
7 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.
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.
8 Locutus est itaque Hemor ad eos: Sichem filii mei adhæsit anima filiæ vestræ: date eam illi uxorem:
And Hamor speaks with them, saying, “Shechem, my son, his soul has cleaved to your daughter; please give her to him for a wife,
9 et iungamus vicissim connubia: filias vestras tradite nobis, et filias nostras accipite.
and join in marriage with us; you give your daughters to us, and you take our daughters for yourselves,
10 Et habitate nobiscum: terra in potestate vestra est, exercete, negotiamini, et possidete eam.
and you dwell with us, and the land is before you; dwell and trade [in] it, and have possessions in it.”
11 Sed et Sichem ad patrem et ad fratres eius ait: Inveniam gratiam coram vobis: et quæcumque statueritis, dabo:
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;
12 augete dotem, et munera postulate, et libenter tribuam quod petieritis: tantum date mihi puellam hanc uxorem.
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.”
13 Responderunt filii Iacob Sichem et patri eius in dolo, sævientes ob stuprum sororis:
And the sons of Jacob answer Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, and they speak (because he defiled their sister Dinah),
14 Non possumus facere quod petitis, nec dare sororem nostram homini incircumciso: quod illicitum et nefarium est apud nos.
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.
15 Sed in hoc valebimus fœderari, si volueritis esse similes nostri, et circumcidatur in vobis omne masculini sexus;
Only for this we consent to you: if you are as we, to have every male of you circumcised,
16 tunc dabimus et accipiemus mutuo filias vestras, ac nostras: et habitabimus vobiscum, erimusque unus populus:
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;
17 si autem circumcidi nolueritis, tollemus filiam nostram, et recedemus.
and if you do not listen to us to be circumcised, then we have taken our daughter, and have gone.”
18 Placuit oblatio eorum Hemor, et Sichem filio eius:
And their words are good in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shechem, Hamor’s son;
19 nec distulit adolescens quin statim quod petebatur expleret: amabat enim puellam valde, et ipse erat inclytus in omni domo patris sui.
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.
20 Ingressique portam urbis, locuti sunt ad populum:
And Hamor comes—his son Shechem also—to the gate of their city, and they speak to the men of their city, saying,
21 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.
“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.
22 Unum est quo differtur tantum bonum: Si circumcidamus masculos nostros, ritum gentis imitantes.
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;
23 Et substantia eorum, et pecora, et cuncta quæ possident, nostra erunt: tantum in hoc acquiescamus, et habitantes simul, unum efficiemus populum.
their livestock, and their substance, and all their beasts—are they not ours? Only let us consent to them, and they dwell with us.”
24 Assensique sunt omnes, circumcisis cunctis maribus.
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.
25 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,
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;
26 Hemor et Sichem pariter necaverunt, tollentes Dinam de domo Sichem sororem suam.
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.
27 Quibus egressis, irruerunt super occisos ceteri filii Iacob: et depopulati sunt urbem in ultionem stupri.
Jacob’s sons have come in on the wounded, and they spoil the city, because they had defiled their sister;
28 Oves eorum, et armenta, et asinos, cunctaque vastantes quæ in domibus et in agris erant,
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;
29 parvulos quoque eorum et uxores duxerunt captivas.
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.
30 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.
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.”
31 Responderunt: Numquid ut scorto abuti debuere sorore nostra?
And they say, “Does he make our sister as a harlot?”
