Genesis 34

CLV(i) 1 And forth is faring Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore for Jacob, to see the daughters of the land. 2 And seeing her is Shechem, son of Hamor, the Hivite, the prince of the land. And taking her is he and lying with her and humiliating her. 3 And clinging is his soul to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and loving the maiden is he, and speaking to the heart of the maiden. 4 And speaking is Shechem to Hamor, his father, saying, "Take for me this girl for a wife. 5 And Jacob hears that the son of Hamor had defiled Dinah, his daughter. Yet his sons came to be with his cattle in the field, and silent is Jacob till their coming. 6 And forth is faring Hamor, the father of Shechem, to Jacob to speak with him. 7 And the sons of Jacob came from the field as they hear of it. And mortified are the mortals, and hot is their anger exceedingly, that decadence does he in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for so is not being done. 8 And speaking is Hamor with them, saying, "My son Shechem's soul is attached to your daughter. Pray, give her to him for his wife. 9 And intermarry with us, and your daughters give to us, and our daughters shall you take for your sons. 10 And with us dwell. And the land, behold! Wide is it before you. Dwell, and be merchants on it, and have holdings in it. 11 And saying is Shechem to her father and to her brothers, "Finding am I grace in your eyes, then what you shall say to me will I give. 12 Increase on me exceedingly a bride-price and gift, and I will give as you shall say to me. Yet give to me the maiden for a wife. 13 And answering are the sons of Jacob to Shechem and Hamor, his father, with deceit. And speaking are they to those who had defiled Dinah, their sister. 14 And saying are Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, sons of Leah, to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who has a foreskin, for a reproach is that to us. 15 Yea, in this consent will we to you and dwell among you, if you become as we are by circumcising your every male. 16 And give would we our daughters to you, and your daughters will we take for us for wives, and we will dwell with you and we will become as one people. 17 And should you not hearken to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go. 18 And good are their words in the eyes of Hamor and in the eyes of Shechem, son of Hamor. 19 And the youth does not delay to do the thing, for he delights in Jacob's daughter, and he is the most glorious of all the household of his father. 20 And coming are Hamor and Shechem, his son, to the gateway of their city, and speaking to the mortals of their city, saying, 21 These mortals, peaceable are they with us, and dwell will they in the land, and be merchants in it. And the land, behold! Wide is it on all hands before them. Their daughters will we take for us for wives, and our daughters will we give to them. 22 Yea, in this are the mortals consenting to us, to dwell with us, to become one people, by our circumcising every male, as they circumcise. 23 Their cattle and their acquisitions and all their beasts, will they not be ours? Yea, in this are we consenting to them, and they will dwell with us. 24 And hearkening to Hamor and to Shechem, his son, are all faring forth from the gateway of their city. And circumcised is the flesh of their foreskin of every male, all who are faring forth from the gateway of his city. 25 And coming is it on the third day, when they come to be in pain, taking are two sons of Jacob, Simeon, and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each man his sword, and coming are they to the trusting city, and killing are they every male. 26 And Hamor and Shechem, his son, they kill by the edge of the sword. And taking are they Dinah from the house of Shechem, and faring forth. 27 And the sons of Jacob come upon the violated, and plundering are they the city which defiled their sister Dinah. 28 And all their flocks and all their herds, and all their asses, and all that is in the city, and all that is in the field, they take. 29 And all their estate, and all their tots and their wives, they capture. And plundering are they all that is in the city and all that is in the houses. 30 And saying is Jacob to Simeon and to Levi, "You trouble me to make me stink among all the dwellers of the land, among the Canaanite and among the Perizzite. And I am death-doomed, outnumbered when gathered are they against me and smite me, and exterminated shall I be, I and my household. 31 Yet saying are they, "As with a prostitute may he deal with our sister?