34:1 Dinah the daughter of Leah and Jacob
went
out to meet the local women.
34:2 Then Shechem
son
of Hamor the Hivite
the
leader of that place
saw
her and then raped her.
34:3 His heart was attracted to Dinah
the
daughter of Jacob.
He
loved the young woman
and
spoke tenderly to her.
34:4 Then Shechem
told
his father Hamor:
Get
me this girl as my wife.
34:5 When Jacob heard Dinah
his
daughter had been violated
his
sons were out in the field
with
his herds
so
he held his peace
until
they returned.
34:6 Then Hamor
Shechem's
father
went
out to talk with Jacob.
34:7 When Jacob's sons returned
from
the field
they
heard what happened.
They
were upset and angry
because
he had done something
condemned
in
by
lying with Jacob's daughter
which
should not have happened.
34:8 But Hamor told them:
My
son Shechem’s heart
is
set on your daughter.
Please
give her to him as his wife.
34:9 Join our family.
Give
us your daughters
and
accept our daughters as yours.
34:10 You can live among us.
The
land is available to you.
Live
here and do business here
and
buy your things here.
34:11 Shechem told Dinah's father and brothers:
Let
me find favor in your eyes
and
whatever you ask for I will give you.
34:12 Ask me whatever great a price
a
dowry and a gift you like.
I
will give you whatever you ask.
Just
give me the maiden to marry.
34:13 Then the sons of Jacob
answered
Shechem
and
his father Hamor deceitfully
because
he had defiled Dinah.
34:14 They said to them:
We
can't do this thing.
We
can't give our sister
to
an unclean man.
That
would disgrace us.
34:15 However we will agree
with
you on one condition only:
that
you become like us
and
have all your men
undergo
purification.
34:16 Then we will give you our daughters
and
accept your daughters as ourselves.
We'll
live among you
and
become one people.
34:17 But if you do not agree to be purified
we
will take our sister and leave.
34:18 Their reasoning made sense
to
Hamor and his son Shechem.
34:19 The young man acted immediately
and
did this for he was attracted
to
Jacob’s daughter and considered
more
honorable than anyone
in
the household of his father.
34:20 Then Hamor and his son Shechem
went
to the gate of their village
and
spoke city to speak to the village men.
34:21 They said:
These
men are peaceful towards us.
So
let them live in our region
and
do business here.
There
is plenty of room for them here.
Let’s
offer them our daughters.
34:22 Except in this case these men
require
they will live here
only
on the condition every male
become
purified as they are.
34:23 Their herds and other animals
and
their properties
will
become ours won’t they?
Let
us agree to their terms
and
they will settle among us.
34:24 So the men who met
at
the village gate
agreed
with Hamor
and
his son Shechem.
And
every male in the village
underwent
purification.
34:25 Three days later
as
they were grieving
Jacob’s
two sons Simeon and Levi
and
Dinah's brothers got their swords
and
boldly attacked the village
and
killed all the men there.
34:26 They killed Hamor
and
his son Shechem with swords
and
took Dinah
out
of Shechem's house
and
left that place.
34:27 Jacob’s sons finished off the wounded
and
plundered the village
because
of their sister’s rape.
34:28 They took their sheep and oxen
their
donkeys and everything else
in
the village and in the fields.
34:29 They carried away their property
and
all their children and wives
looting
everything inside the dwellings.
34:30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi:
You
have put me in danger
by
making me an enemy
to
the Canaanites and Perizzites
those
people who live in this region.
There
are only a few of us
and
if they join forces and attack me
my
household and me will be destroyed.
34:31 But they replied:
Should
he have dealt with our sister
As
though she was a prostitute?
