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Genesis 34
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Genesis 34

The Treachery of Jacob’s Sons

34Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.H1783H1323H3812H3205H3290H3318H7200H1323H7762And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.H7927H1121H2544H2340H5387H776H7200H3947H7901H60313And he was deeply attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to her.H5315H1692H1783H1323H3290H157H5291H1696H3820H52914So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get me this young girl for a wife."H7927H559H1H2544H559H3947H3207H8025Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; but his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob kept silent until they came in.H3290H8085H2930H1783H1323H1121H4735H7704H3290H2790H9356Then Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.H2544H1H7927H3318H3290H1696H8547Now the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard [it;] and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.H1121H3290H935H7704H8085H582H6087H3966H2734H6213H5039H3478H7901H3290H1323H62138But Hamor spoke with them, saying, "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; please give her to him in marriage.H2544H1696H559H5315H1121H7927H2836H1323H5414H8029"And intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.H2859H5414H1323H3947H132310"Thus you shall live with us, and the land shall be [open] before you; live and trade in it, and acquire property in it."H3427H776H1961H6440H3427H5503H27011Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, "If I find favor in your sight, then I will give whatever you say to me.H7927H559H1H251H4672H2580H5869H559H541412"Ask me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; but give me the girl in marriage."H7235H3966H4119H4976H5414H559H5414H5291H80213But Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor, with deceit, and spoke to them, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.H1121H3290H6030H7927H2544H1H4820H1696H2930H1783H26914And they said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.H559H3808H3201H6213H1697H5414H269H376H6190H278115"Only on this [condition] will we consent to you: if you will become like us, in that every male of you be circumcised,H2063H225H2145H413516then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will live with you and become one people.H5414H1323H3947H1323H3427H259H597117"But if you will not listen to us to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go."H8085H4135H3947H1323H198018Now their words seemed reasonable to Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.H1697H3190H5869H2544H7927H2544H112119And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of his father.H5288H309H6213H1697H2654H3290H1323H3513H1004H120So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city, and spoke to the men of their city, saying,H2544H7927H1121H935H8179H5892H1696H582H5892H55921"These men are friendly with us; therefore let them live in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters in marriage, and give our daughters to them.H582H8003H854H3427H776H5503H776H7342H3027H6440H3947H1323H802H5414H132322"Only on this [condition] will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised.H2063H582H225H3427H259H5971H2145H4135H413523"Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will live with us."H4735H7075H929H225H342724And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.H2544H7927H1121H8085H3318H8179H5892H2145H4135H3318H8179H589225Now it came about on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and came upon the city unawares, and killed every male.H7992H3117H3510H8147H1121H3290H8095H3878H1783H251H3947H376H2719H935H5892H983H2026H214526And they killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah from Shechem's house, and went forth.H2026H2544H7927H1121H6310H2719H3947H1783H3947H7927H1004H331827Jacob's sons came upon the slain and looted the city, because they had defiled their sister.H1121H3290H935H2491H962H5892H2930H26928They took their flocks and their herds and their donkeys, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field;H3947H6629H1241H2543H5892H770429and they captured and looted all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives, even all that [was] in the houses.H2428H2945H802H7617H962H100430Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me, by making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and my men being few in number, they will gather together against me and attack me and I shall be destroyed, I and my household."H3290H559H8095H3878H5916H887H3427H776H3669H6522H4962H4557H622H5221H8045H100431But they said, "Should he treat our sister as a harlot?"H559H6213H269H2181


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