18 August 2022 draft-bible
1 And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2 And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, and he took her, and lay with her, and violated her. 3 And his soul became attached to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman, and spoke kindly to the young woman. 4 And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Get me this young woman as a wife.
5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter, and his sons were with his livestock in the field; and Jacob held his peace until they came. 6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him. 7 And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. And the men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done a vile deed in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing that ought not be done. 8 And Hamor talked with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. 9 And intermarry with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. 10 And you shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you: dwell and trade in it, and get possessions in it.
11 And 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. 12 Ask me ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young woman as a wife.
13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, 14 and said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us. 15 Only on this condition will we consent to you: if you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised, 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. 17 But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will be gone.
18 And their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son. 19 And the young man did not wait to do this thing, because he delighted in Jacob’s daughter; and he was honered above all the house of his father. 20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying, 21 These men are at peace with us; therefore let them dwell 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. 22 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people: if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised. 23 Shall not their livestock and their possessions and all their beasts be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.
24 And all who went out of the gate of the city listened to Hamor and to Shechem his son, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city. 25 And on the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, and came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males. 26 And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away. 27 The sons of Jacob came upon the dead and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28 They took their flocks, and their herds, and their donkeys, and whatever was in the city, and whatever was in the field, 29 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and looted all that was in the house.
30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have trouble me, making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And as I am few in number, they will gather themselves together to attack me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.
31 And they said, Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?
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