34One day Dinah, the daughter Leah had given Jacob, went to visit some of the women in that country.H1783H1323H3812H3205H3290H3318H7200H1323H776

2Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was chieftain there, saw her and raped her.H7927H1121H2544H2340H5387H776H7200H3947H7901H6031

3Then he felt a strong attraction to Dinah, Jacob's daughter, fell in love with her and wooed her.H5315H1692H1783H1323H3290H157H5291H1696H3820H5291

4Shechem went to his father Hamor, "Get me this girl for my wife."H7927H559H1H2544H559H3947H3207H802

5Jacob heard that Shechem had raped his daughter Dinah, but his sons were out in the fields with the livestock so he didn't say anything until they got home.H3290H8085H2930H1783H1323H1121H4735H7704H3290H2790H935

6Hamor, Shechem's father, went to Jacob to work out marriage arrangements.H2544H1H7927H3318H3290H1696H854

7Meanwhile Jacob's sons on their way back from the fields heard what had happened. They were outraged, explosive with anger. Shechem's rape of Jacob's daughter was intolerable in Israel and not to be put up with.H1121H3290H935H7704H8085H582H6087H3966H2734H6213H5039H3478H7901H3290H1323H6213

8Hamor spoke with Jacob and his sons, "My son Shechem is head over heels in love with your daughter—give her to him as his wife.H2544H1696H559H5315H1121H7927H2836H1323H5414H802

9Intermarry with us. Give your daughters to us and we'll give our daughters to you.H2859H5414H1323H3947H1323

10Live together with us as one family. Settle down among us and make yourselves at home. Prosper among us."H3427H776H1961H6440H3427H5503H270

11Shechem then spoke for himself, addressing Dinah's father and brothers: "Please, say yes. I'll pay anything.H7927H559H1H251H4672H2580H5869H559H5414

12Set the bridal price as high as you will—the sky's the limit! Only give me this girl for my wife."H7235H3966H4119H4976H5414H559H5414H5291H802

13Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father with cunning. Their sister, after all, had been raped.H1121H3290H6030H7927H2544H1H4820H1696H2930H1783H269

14They said, "This is impossible. We could never give our sister to a man who was uncircumcised. Why, we'd be disgraced.H559H3808H3201H6213H1697H5414H269H376H6190H2781

15The only condition on which we can talk business is if all your men become circumcised like us.H2063H225H2145H4135

16Then we will freely exchange daughters in marriage and make ourselves at home among you and become one big, happy family.H5414H1323H3947H1323H3427H259H5971

17But if this is not an acceptable condition, we will take our sister and leave."H8085H4135H3947H1323H1980

18That seemed fair enough to Hamor and his son Shechem.H1697H3190H5869H2544H7927H2544H1121

19The young man was so smitten with Jacob's daughter that he proceeded to do what had been asked. He was also the most admired son in his father's family.H5288H309H6213H1697H2654H3290H1323H3513H1004H1

20So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the public square and spoke to the town council:H2544H7927H1121H935H8179H5892H1696H582H5892H559

21"These men like us; they are our friends. Let them settle down here and make themselves at home; there's plenty of room in the country for them. And, just think, we can even exchange our daughters in marriage.H582H8003H854H3427H776H5503H776H7342H3027H6440H3947H1323H802H5414H1323

22But these men will only accept our invitation to live with us and become one big family on one condition, that all our males become circumcised just as they themselves are.H2063H582H225H3427H259H5971H2145H4135H4135

23This is a very good deal for us—these people are very wealthy with great herds of livestock and we're going to get our hands on it. So let's do what they ask and have them settle down with us."H4735H7075H929H225H3427

24Everyone who was anyone in the city agreed with Hamor and his son, Shechem; every male was circumcised.H2544H7927H1121H8085H3318H8179H5892H2145H4135H3318H8179H5892

25Three days after the circumcision, while all the men were still very sore, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each with his sword in hand, walked into the city as if they owned the place and murdered every man there.H7992H3117H3510H8147H1121H3290H8095H3878H1783H251H3947H376H2719H935H5892H983H2026H2145

26They also killed Hamor and his son Shechem, rescued Dinah from Shechem's house, and left.H2026H2544H7927H1121H6310H2719H3947H1783H3947H7927H1004H3318

27When the rest of Jacob's sons came on the scene of slaughter, they looted the entire city in retaliation for Dinah's rape.H1121H3290H935H2491H962H5892H2930H269

28Flocks, herds, donkeys, belongings—everything, whether in the city or the fields—they took.H3947H6629H1241H2543H5892H7704

29And then they took all the wives and children captive and ransacked their homes for anything valuable.H2428H2945H802H7617H962H1004

30Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You've made my name stink to high heaven among the people here, these Canaanites and Perizzites. If they decided to gang up on us and attack, as few as we are we wouldn't stand a chance; they'd wipe me and my people right off the map."H3290H559H8095H3878H5916H887H3427H776H3669H6522H4962H4557H622H5221H8045H1004

31They said, "Nobody is going to treat our sister like a whore and get by with it."H559H6213H269H2181