Genesis 34
1 Egressa est autem Dina filia Liæ ut videret mulieres regionis illius.
Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see 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.
Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
3 Et conglutinata est anima ejus cum ea, tristemque delinivit blanditiis.
His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
4 Et pergens ad Hemor patrem suum: Accipe, inquit, mihi puellam hanc conjugem.
Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”
5 Quod cum audisset Jacob absentibus filiis, et in pastu pecorum occupatis, siluit donec redirent.
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.
6 Egresso autem Hemor patre Sichem ut loqueretur ad Jacob,
Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.
7 ecce filii ejus veniebant de agro: auditoque quod acciderat, irati sunt valde, eo quod fœdam rem operatus esset in Israël et, violata filia Jacob, rem illicitam perpetrasset.
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.
8 Locutus est itaque Hemor ad eos: Sichem filii mei adhæsit anima filiæ vestræ: date eam illi uxorem:
Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
9 et jungamus vicissim connubia: filias vestras tradite nobis, et filias nostras accipite,
Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
10 et habitate nobiscum: terra in potestate vestra est: exercete, negotiamini, et possidete eam.
You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”
11 Sed et Sichem ad patrem et ad fratres ejus ait: Inveniam gratiam coram vobis: et quæcumque statueritis, dabo:
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.
12 augete dotem, et munera postulate, et libenter tribuam quod petieritis: tantum date mihi puellam hanc uxorem.
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.”
13 Responderunt filii Jacob Sichem et patri ejus in dolo, sævientes ob stuprum sororis:
The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
14 Non possumus facere quod petitis, nec dare sororem nostram homini incircumciso: quod illicitum et nefarium est apud nos.
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.
15 Sed in hoc valebimus fœderari, si volueritis esse similes nostri, et circumcidatur in vobis omne masculini sexus;
Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,
16 tunc dabimus et accipiemus mutuo filias vestras ac nostras: et habitabimus vobiscum, erimusque unus populus.
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.
17 Si autem circumcidi nolueritis, tollemus filiam nostram, et recedemus.
But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”
18 Placuit oblatio eorum Hemor, et Sichem filio ejus,
Their words pleased Hamor and 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.
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.
20 Ingressique portam urbis, locuti sunt ad populum:
Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with 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 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.
22 Unum est quo differtur tantum bonum: si circumcidamus masculos nostros, ritum gentis imitantes.
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.
23 Et substantia eorum, et pecora, et cuncta quæ possident, nostra erunt: tantum in hoc acquiescamus, et habitantes simul, unum efficiemus populum.
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.”
24 Assensique sunt omnes, circumcisis cunctis maribus.
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.
25 Et ecce, die tertio, quando gravissimus vulnerum dolor est: arreptis duo filii Jacob, Simeon et Levi fratres Dinæ, gladiis, ingressi sunt urbem confidenter: interfectisque omnibus masculis,
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.
26 Hemor et Sichem pariter necaverunt, tollentes Dinam de domo Sichem sororem suam.
They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
27 Quibus egressis, irruerunt super occisos ceteri filii Jacob: et depopulati sunt urbem in ultionem stupri.
Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
28 Oves eorum, et armenta, et asinos, cunctaque vastantes quæ in domibus et in agris erant,
They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,
29 parvulos quoque eorum et uxores duxerunt captivas.
and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.
30 Quibus patratis audacter, Jacob dixit ad Simeon et Levi: Turbastis me, et odiosum fecistis me Chananæis, et Pherezæis habitatoribus terræ hujus: nos pauci sumus; illi congregati percutient me, et delebor ego, et domus mea.
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.”
31 Responderunt: Numquid ut scorto abuti debuere sorore nostra?
They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”
