Genesis 34

Dinah Defiled

34Dinah, Leah's daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see some of the young women of the area.H1783H1323H3812H3205H3290H3318H7200H1323H7762When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the region, saw her, he took her and raped her.H7927H1121H2544H2340H5387H776H7200H3947H7901H60313He became infatuated with Dinah, daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke tenderly to her.H5315H1692H1783H1323H3290H157H5291H1696H3820H52914"Get me this girl as a wife," he told his father Hamor.H7927H559H1H2544H559H3947H3207H8025Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his cattle in the field, he remained silent until they returned.H3290H8085H2930H1783H1323H1121H4735H7704H3290H2790H9356Meanwhile, Shechem's father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.H2544H1H7927H3318H3290H1696H8547Jacob's sons returned from the field when they heard [about the incident] and were deeply grieved and angry. For Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by sleeping with Jacob's daughter, and such a thing should not be done.H1121H3290H935H7704H8085H582H6087H3966H2734H6213H5039H3478H7901H3290H1323H62138Hamor said to Jacob's sons, "My son Shechem is strongly attracted to your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.H2544H1696H559H5315H1121H7927H2836H1323H5414H8029Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.H2859H5414H1323H3947H132310Live with us. The land is before you. Settle here, move about, and acquire property in it."H3427H776H1961H6440H3427H5503H27011Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, "Grant me this favor, and I'll give you whatever you say.H7927H559H1H251H4672H2580H5869H559H541412Set for me the compensation and the gift; I'll give you whatever you ask me. Just give the girl to be my wife!"H7235H3966H4119H4976H5414H559H5414H5291H80213But Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah.H1121H3290H6030H7927H2544H1H4820H1696H2930H1783H26914"We cannot do this thing," they said to them. "Giving our sister to an uncircumcised man is a disgrace to us.H559H3808H3201H6213H1697H5414H269H376H6190H278115We will agree with you only on this condition: if all your males are circumcised as we are.H2063H225H2145H413516Then we will give you our daughters, take your daughters for ourselves, live with you, and become one people.H5414H1323H3947H1323H3427H259H597117But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go."H8085H4135H3947H1323H198018Their words seemed good in the eyes of Hamor and his son Shechem.H1697H3190H5869H2544H7927H2544H112119The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father's house.H5288H309H6213H1697H2654H3290H1323H3513H1004H120So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men there.H2544H7927H1121H935H8179H5892H1696H582H5892H55921"These men are peaceful toward us," they said. "Let them live in our land and move about in it, for indeed, the region is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters as our wives and give our daughters to them.H582H8003H854H3427H776H5503H776H7342H3027H6440H3947H1323H802H5414H132322But the men will agree to live with us and be one people only on this condition: if all our men are circumcised as they are.H2063H582H225H3427H259H5971H2145H4135H413523Won't their herds, their possessions, and all their livestock become ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will live with us."H4735H7075H929H225H342724All the able-bodied men listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and all the able-bodied men were circumcised.H2544H7927H1121H8085H3318H8179H5892H2145H4135H3318H8179H589225On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and killed every male.H7992H3117H3510H8147H1121H3290H8095H3878H1783H251H3947H376H2719H935H5892H983H2026H214526They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah from Shechem's house, and went away.H2026H2544H7927H1121H6310H2719H3947H1783H3947H7927H1004H331827Jacob's [other] sons came to the slaughter and plundered the city because their sister had been defiled.H1121H3290H935H2491H962H5892H2930H26928They took their sheep, cattle, donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field.H3947H6629H1241H2543H5892H770429They captured all their possessions, children, and wives, and plundered everything in the houses.H2428H2945H802H7617H962H100430Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me, making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed."H3290H559H8095H3878H5916H887H3427H776H3669H6522H4962H4557H622H5221H8045H100431But they answered, "Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?"H559H6213H269H2181