Feb.
3
Genesis
34
Gen
34:1 Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out
to see the daughters of the land.
Gen
34:2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land,
saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
Gen
34:3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved
the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
Gen
34:4 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this
young lady as a wife."
Gen
34:5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and
his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace
until they came.
Gen
34:6 Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.
Gen
34:7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it.
The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done
folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; a which thing ought
not to be done.
Gen
34:8 Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son,
Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
Gen
34:9 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our
daughters for yourselves.
Gen
34:10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live
and trade in it, and get possessions in it."
Gen
34:11 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me
find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
Gen
34:12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever
you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
Gen
34:13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with
deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
Gen
34:14 and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our
sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
Gen
34:15 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be
as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
Gen
34:16 then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your
daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one
people.
Gen
34:17 But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we
will take our sister, and we will be gone."
Gen
34:18 Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.
Gen
34:19 The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had
delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house
of his father.
Gen
34:20 Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city,
and talked with the men of their city, saying,
Gen
34:21 "These men are peaceful 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 to us for wives, and let us give
them our daughters.
Gen
34:22 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with
us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as
they are circumcised.
Gen
34:23 Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their
animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will
dwell with us."
Gen
34:24 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor,
and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went
out of the gate of his city.
Gen
34:25 It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of
Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword,
came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
Gen
34:26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the
sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.
Gen
34:27 Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because
they had defiled their sister.
Gen
34:28 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which
was in the city, that which was in the field,
Gen
34:29 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones
and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the
house.
Gen
34:30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to
make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites
and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves
together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my
house."
Gen
34:31 They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a
prostitute?"