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?
