Genesis 34:1-17 ▼

1 And Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she has borne to Jacob, goes out to look on the daughters of the land,

2 and Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, sees her, and takes her, and lies with her, and humbles her;

3 and his soul cleaves to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and he loves the young person, and speaks to the heart of the young person.

4 And Shechem speaks to his father Hamor, saying, “Take for me this girl for a wife.”

5 And Jacob has heard that he has defiled his daughter Dinah, and his sons were with his livestock in the field, and Jacob kept silent until their coming.

6 And Hamor, father of Shechem, goes out to Jacob to speak with him;

7 and the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard, and the men grieve themselves, and it [is] very displeasing to them, for folly he has done against Israel, to lie with the daughter of Jacob—and so it is not done.

8 And Hamor speaks with them, saying, “Shechem, my son, his soul has cleaved to your daughter; please give her to him for a wife,

9 and join in marriage with us; you give your daughters to us, and you take our daughters for yourselves,

10 and you dwell with us, and the land is before you; dwell and trade [in] it, and have possessions in it.”

11 And Shechem says to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find grace in your eyes, and that which you say to me, I give;

12 multiply on me dowry and gift exceedingly, and I give as you say to me, and give to me the young person for a wife.”

13 And the sons of Jacob answer Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, and they speak (because he defiled their sister Dinah),

14 and say to them, “We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to one who has a foreskin, for it [is] a reproach to us.

15 Only for this we consent to you: if you are as we, to have every male of you circumcised,

16 then we have given our daughters to you, and we take your daughters for ourselves, and we have dwelt with you, and have become one people;

17 and if you do not listen to us to be circumcised, then we have taken our daughter, and have gone.”