Chapter 34
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And Dinah went out, the daughter of Leah whom she had borne to Jacob, to see the daughters of the land.
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Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the land, saw her, and he took her and lay with her and humbled her.
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And his vital life force clung to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl, and he spoke to the heart of the girl.
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Shechem said to Hamor his father, "Take this girl for me as a wife."
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And Jacob heard that he had made Dinah his daughter cultically impure, and his sons were with his livestock in the field, and Jacob was silent until they came.
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Hamor went out, the father of Shechem, to Jacob to speak with him.
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And the sons of Jacob came from the field when they heard it, and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a disgraceful act in Israel to lie with the daughter of Jacob—so such a thing should not be done.
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Hamor spoke to them, saying, "Shechem my son—his vital life force has desired your daughter. Give her to him as a wife now."
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And let us intermarry with you: you shall give your daughters to us, and you shall take our daughters for yourselves.
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And you dwell, and the land will be before you; dwell and trade and take hold of it.
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And Shechem said to his father and to his brothers, "I will find favor in your eyes, and what you say to me I will give."
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Increase it upon me very much, very quickly, and gift, and I will give according as you say to me, and give the young man the woman.
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And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit and spoke that he had defiled their sister Dinah.
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And they said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who has foreskin to him, for it is a reproach to us."
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Only in this way will we agree to you if you become like us by circumcising every male among you.
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and we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will dwell with you, and we will be one people.
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And if you do not listen to us and circumcise, we will take our daughter and go.
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And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and in the eyes of Shechem son of Hamor.
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And the young man did not delay to do the word, because he desired the daughter of Jacob, and he was honored more than all the house of his father.
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And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and they spoke to the men of their city, saying:
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These men are at peace with us, and let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for the land—behold—is spacious enough for them. Let us take their daughters for our wives, and let us give our daughters to them.
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Only in this way will these men agree to dwell with us to become one people: if we circumcise every male among us, just as they are circumcised.
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Their livestock and their possessions and all their cattle—are they not ours? Only let them be pleased, and they will dwell with us.
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And they listened to Hamor and to Shechem his son, all who went out of the gate of his city, and they circumcised every male, all who went out of the gate of his city.
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And it was on the third day, when they were sore, that the two sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each with his sword, came upon the city securely and killed every male.
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And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the sword, and they took Dinah from the house of Shechem, and they went out.
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The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, which they had made unclean—their sister.
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Their sheep and their cattle and their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and whatever was in the field, they took.
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and their entire strength and their entire little ones and their women they took captive, and they plundered everything that was in the house.
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Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me stink among the inhabitants of the land, among Canaanites and Perizzites. I am few in number, and they will gather against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."
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And they said, "Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?"