34One day Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the Canaanite women.H1783H1323H3812H3205H3290H3318H7200H1323H776 2When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who was chief of that region, saw her, he took her and raped her.H7927H1121H2544H2340H5387H776H7200H3947H7901H6031 3But he found the young woman so attractive that he fell in love with her and tried to win her affection.H5315H1692H1783H1323H3290H157H5291H1696H3820H5291 4He told his father, "I want you to get Dinah for me as my wife."H7927H559H1H2544H559H3947H3207H802 5Jacob learned that his daughter had been disgraced, but because his sons were out in the fields with his livestock, he did nothing until they came back.H3290H8085H2930H1783H1323H1121H4735H7704H3290H2790H935 6Shechem's father Hamor went out to talk with Jacob,H2544H1H7927H3318H3290H1696H854 7just as Jacob's sons were coming in from the fields. When they heard about it, they were shocked and furious that Shechem had done such a thing and had insulted the people of Israel by raping Jacob's daughter.H1121H3290H935H7704H8085H582H6087H3966H2734H6213H5039H3478H7901H3290H1323H6213 8Hamor said to him, "My son Shechem has fallen in love with your daughter; please let him marry her.H2544H1696H559H5315H1121H7927H2836H1323H5414H802 9Let us make an agreement that there will be intermarriage between our people and yours.H2859H5414H1323H3947H1323 10Then you may stay here in our country with us; you may live anywhere you wish, trade freely, and own property."H3427H776H1961H6440H3427H5503H270 11Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, "Do me this favor, and I will give you whatever you want.H7927H559H1H251H4672H2580H5869H559H5414 12Tell me what presents you want, and set the payment for the bride as high as you wish; I will give you whatever you ask, if you will only let me marry her."H7235H3966H4119H4976H5414H559H5414H5291H802 13Because Shechem had disgraced their sister Dinah, Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor in a deceitful way.H1121H3290H6030H7927H2544H1H4820H1696H2930H1783H269 14They said to him, "We cannot let our sister marry a man who is not circumcised; that would be a disgrace for us.H559H3808H3201H6213H1697H5414H269H376H6190H2781 15We can agree only on the condition that you become like us by circumcising all your males.H2063H225H2145H4135 16Then we will agree to intermarriage. We will settle among you and become one people with you.H5414H1323H3947H1323H3427H259H5971 17But if you will not accept our terms and be circumcised, we will take her and leave."H8085H4135H3947H1323H1980 18These terms seemed fair to Hamor and his son Shechem,H1697H3190H5869H2544H7927H2544H1121 19and the young man lost no time in doing what was suggested, because he was in love with Jacob's daughter. He was the most important member of his family.H5288H309H6213H1697H2654H3290H1323H3513H1004H1 20Hamor and his son Shechem went to the meeting place at the city gate and spoke to the people of the town:H2544H7927H1121H935H8179H5892H1696H582H5892H559 21"These men are friendly; let them live in the land with us and travel freely. The land is large enough for them also. Let us marry their daughters and give them ours in marriage.H582H8003H854H3427H776H5503H776H7342H3027H6440H3947H1323H802H5414H1323 22But these men will agree to live among us and be one people with us only on the condition that we circumcise all our males, as they are circumcised.H2063H582H225H3427H259H5971H2145H4135H4135 23Won't all their livestock and everything else they own be ours? So let us agree that they can live among us."H4735H7075H929H225H3427 24All the citizens of the city agreed with what Hamor and Shechem proposed, and all the males were circumcised.H2544H7927H1121H8085H3318H8179H5892H2145H4135H3318H8179H5892 25Three days later, when the men were still sore from their circumcision, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, took their swords, went into the city without arousing suspicion, and killed all the men,H7992H3117H3510H8147H1121H3290H8095H3878H1783H251H3947H376H2719H935H5892H983H2026H2145 26including Hamor and his son Shechem. Then they took Dinah from Shechem's house and left.H2026H2544H7927H1121H6310H2719H3947H1783H3947H7927H1004H3318 27After the slaughter Jacob's other sons looted the town to take revenge for their sister's disgrace.H1121H3290H935H2491H962H5892H2930H269 28They took the flocks, the cattle, the donkeys, and everything else in the city and in the fields.H3947H6629H1241H2543H5892H7704 29They took everything of value, captured all the women and children, and carried off everything in the houses.H2428H2945H802H7617H962H1004 30Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have gotten me into trouble; now the Canaanites, the Perizzites, and everybody else in the land will hate me. I do not have many men; if they all band together against me and attack me, our whole family will be destroyed."H3290H559H8095H3878H5916H887H3427H776H3669H6522H4962H4557H622H5221H8045H1004 31But they answered, "We cannot let our sister be treated like a common whore."H559H6213H269H2181
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