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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and raped her. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And Shechem said to his father Hamor, "Get me this girl as my wife." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5When Jacob heard that his daughter Dinah had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his livestock; so he did nothing about it until they came home. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Then Shechem's father Hamor went out to talk with Jacob. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Meanwhile, Jacob's sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked and furious, because Shechem had done an outrageous thing in Israel by sleeping with Jacob's daughter--a thing that should not be done. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But Hamor said to them, "My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10You can settle among us; the land is open to you. Live in it, trade in it, and acquire property in it." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Make 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 young woman as my wife." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob's sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14They 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. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15We will enter into an agreement with you on one condition only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We'll settle among you and become one people with you. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we'll take our sister and go." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The young man, who was the most honored of all his father's family, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city to speak to the men of their city. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But the men will agree to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised, as they themselves are. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Won't their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours? So let us agree to their terms, and they will settle among us." |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Three 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. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem's house and left. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where their sister had been defiled. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me by making me obnoxious 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." |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31But they replied, "Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?" |
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