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34 : 1 Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land.
34 : 2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and violated her.
34 : 3 His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to her.
34 : 4 And Shechem said to his father Hamor, "Get me this girl as my wife."
34 : 5 When Jacob heard that his daughter Dinah had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his livestock; so he kept quiet about it until they came home.
34 : 6 Then Shechem`s father Hamor went out to talk with Jacob.
34 : 7 Now Jacob`s sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob`s daughter--a thing that should not be done.
34 : 8 But Hamor said to them, "My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
34 : 9 Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.
34 : 10 You can settle among us; the land is open to you. Live in it, trade in it, and acquire property in it."
34 : 11 Then Shechem said to Dinah`s father and brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask.
34 : 12 Make the price for the bride and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I`ll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the girl as my wife."
34 : 13 Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob`s sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor.
34 : 14 They said to them, "We can`t do such a thing; we can`t give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us.
34 : 15 We will give our consent to you on one condition only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males.
34 : 16 Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We`ll settle among you and become one people with you.
34 : 17 But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we`ll take our sister and go."
34 : 18 Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.
34 : 19 The young man, who was the most honored of all his father`s household, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob`s daughter.
34 : 20 So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city to speak to their fellow townsmen.
34 : 21 These men are friendly toward us, they said. "Let them live in our land and trade in it; the land has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters and they can marry ours.
34 : 22 But the men will consent to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised, as they themselves are.
34 : 23 Won`t their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours? So let us give our consent to them, and they will settle among us."
34 : 24 All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.
34 : 25 Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob`s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah`s brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male.
34 : 26 They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem`s house and left.
34 : 27 The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where their sister had been defiled.
34 : 28 They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields.
34 : 29 They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.
34 : 30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed."
34 : 31 But they replied, "Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?"