Genesis 34:10 - Prayer Tents

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.H1783H1323H3812H3205H3290H3318H7200H1323H776 2And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.H7927H1121H2544H2340H5387H776H7200H3947H7901H6031 3And he was deeply attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to her.H5315H1692H1783H1323H3290H157H5291H1696H3820H5291 4So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get me this young girl for a wife."H7927H559H1H2544H559H3947H3207H802 5Now 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.H3290H8085H2930H1783H1323H1121H4735H7704H3290H2790H935 6Then Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.H2544H1H7927H3318H3290H1696H854 7Now 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.H1121H3290H935H7704H8085H582H6087H3966H2734H6213H5039H3478H7901H3290H1323H6213 8But Hamor spoke with them, saying, "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; please give her to him in marriage.H2544H1696H559H5315H1121H7927H2836H1323H5414H802 9"And intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.H2859H5414H1323H3947H1323 10"Thus you shall live with us, and the land shall be [open] before you; live and trade in it, and acquire property in it."H3427H776H1961H6440H3427H5503H270 11Shechem 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.H7927H559H1H251H4672H2580H5869H559H5414 12"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."H7235H3966H4119H4976H5414H559H5414H5291H802 13But Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor, with deceit, and spoke to them, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.H1121H3290H6030H7927H2544H1H4820H1696H2930H1783H269 14And 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.H559H3808H3201H6213H1697H5414H269H376H6190H2781 15"Only on this [condition] will we consent to you: if you will become like us, in that every male of you be circumcised,H2063H225H2145H4135 16then 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.H5414H1323H3947H1323H3427H259H5971 17"But if you will not listen to us to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go."H8085H4135H3947H1323H1980 18Now their words seemed reasonable to Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.H1697H3190H5869H2544H7927H2544H1121 19And 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.H5288H309H6213H1697H2654H3290H1323H3513H1004H1 20So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city, and spoke to the men of their city, saying,H2544H7927H1121H935H8179H5892H1696H582H5892H559 21"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.H582H8003H854H3427H776H5503H776H7342H3027H6440H3947H1323H802H5414H1323 22"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.H2063H582H225H3427H259H5971H2145H4135H4135 23"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."H4735H7075H929H225H3427 24And 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.H2544H7927H1121H8085H3318H8179H5892H2145H4135H3318H8179H5892 25Now 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.H7992H3117H3510H8147H1121H3290H8095H3878H1783H251H3947H376H2719H935H5892H983H2026H2145 26And they killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah from Shechem's house, and went forth.H2026H2544H7927H1121H6310H2719H3947H1783H3947H7927H1004H3318 27Jacob's sons came upon the slain and looted the city, because they had defiled their sister.H1121H3290H935H2491H962H5892H2930H269 28They took their flocks and their herds and their donkeys, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field;H3947H6629H1241H2543H5892H7704 29and they captured and looted all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives, even all that [was] in the houses.H2428H2945H802H7617H962H1004 30Then 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."H3290H559H8095H3878H5916H887H3427H776H3669H6522H4962H4557H622H5221H8045H1004 31But they said, "Should he treat our sister as a harlot?"H559H6213H269H2181