And went forth Dinah, the daughter whom Leah bore to Jacob, to study the daughters of the native inhabitants.
And beheld the son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of the land. And taking her, he went to bed with her, and humbled her.
And he took heed to the soul of Dinah the daughter of Jacob. And he loved the virgin, and he spoke concerning the thought of her virgin state.
And said Shechem to Hamor his father, saying, Take for me this maidservant for a wife.
And Jacob heard that defiled Dinah his daughter. But his sons were with his cattle in the plain. remained silent until they came.
And came forth Hamor the father of Shechem to Jacob to speak to him.
And the sons of Jacob came from the plain. And as they heard, were vexed and it was distressing to them exceedingly. For an indecent act in Israel, going to bed with the daughter of Jacob. And not thus shall it be.
And Hamor spoke to them, saying, Shechem my son prefers in his Give her then to him
And be allied by marriage to us! your daughters and our daughters for your sons!
And with And the land behold, before you; you dwell and in it, and acquire possessions in it!
said to her father, and to her brothers, I want to find favor before you, and what ever you should have said we will give.
You multiply the dowry exceedingly! and I will give in so far as whatever you should have said to me. And you shall give to me this child as wife.
responded to Shechem and Hamor his father with treachery. And they spoke to them, for they defiled Dinah their sister.
And said to them Simeon and Levi the brothers of Dinah, We shall not be able to do this matter, to give our sister to a man who has a foreskin, for it is scorn to us.
Only in this we will be like you, and dwell among you, if you should become as us and we you, in the circumcision of yours
And we will give our daughters to you, and from your daughters we will take to ourselves wives, and we will live by you, and we will be race
But if you should not listen to us, of the being circumcised, taking our daughter, we shall go forth.
And were pleasing before Hamor, and before Shechem the son of Hamor.
And did not to do this word, for he clung to the daughter of Jacob. And he was most honorable of all of the ones in the house of his father.
came to the gate of their city, and spoke to the men of their city, saying,
These men are peaceable with us; let them live upon the land, and let them trade in it! And the land, behold, before them; of their daughters and daughters to them.
In this only will be like to dwell with us, so as to be people in the being circumcised of us every male, as also they have been circumcised.
And their cattle, and the four-footed animals, and their possessions not Only in this, should we be like them, and they will live with us.
And they listened to Hamor and Shechem his son, and all the ones going forth at the gate of their city. And they were circumcised in the flesh of their foreskin every male.
And it came to pass in the day when they were in misery, taking his sword, even entered to the city safely, and killed every male.
Also Hamor and Shechem his son they killed by of the sword. And they took Dinah from the house of Shechem, and went forth.
And the sons of Jacob entered unto the wounded, and plundered the city in which was defiled
And their sheep, and their oxen, and their donkeys, as much as was in the city, and as much as was in the plain, they took.
And all their persons, and all their belongings, and their women they captured. And they plundered as much as was in the city, and as much as was in the houses.
said to Simeon and Levi, me detested so as wicked to all the ones dwelling the land, among both the Canaanites and among the Perizzites. And I am very few in number. And gathering against me, they shall cut me down, and I shall be obliterated, I and my house.