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Genesis 34 📜 📕 ↷
Defiling of Dinah
1 AND Dina the daughter of Lia went forth to see the women of that country.📜💬📚
2 Whom when Sichem had seen, the son of Hemor the Heveite, the Prince of that land, he was in love with her: and he took her away, and lay with her, by force ravishing the virgin.📜💬📚
3 And his soul was fast knit unto her, and whereas she was sad, he comforted her with sweet words.📜💬📚
4 And going to Hemor his father, he said: Take me this wench to be my wife.📜💬📚
5 Which when Jacob had heard, his sons being absent and occupied in feeding of the cattle, he held his peace till they returned.📜💬📚
6 And when Hemor, Sichem's father was come forth to speak unto Jacob,📜💬📚
7 behold his sons came out of the field; and hearing what had passed, they were passing wrath, because he had done a foul thing in Israel, and committed an unlawful fact in ravishing Jacob's daughter.📜💬📚
8 Hemor therefore spake to them: The soul of my son Sichem is fastened to your daughter: Give her unto him to wife:📜💬📚
9 and let us contract marriages one with an other: give us your daughters, and take you our daughters.📜💬📚
10 And dwell with us: the land is at your commandment, till, occupy, and possess it.📜💬📚
11 Yea and Sichem also said to her father and to her brethren: Let me find grace in your sight: and what soever you shall appoint I will give:📜💬📚
12 raise the dowry, and require gifts, and I shall gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this wench to wife.📜💬📚
Revenge of Dinah's Brothers
13 Jacob's sons answered Sichem & his father in guile, being wrath for the deflowering of their sister:📜💬📚
14 We can not do that which you demand, nor give our sister to an uncircumcised person; which with us is an unlawful & abominable thing.📜💬📚
15 But in this order we may be considerate, if you will be like to us, and all the man sex among you be circumcised:📜💬📚
16 then will we give and take mutually your daughters, and ours: and we will dwell with you, and will be one people:📜💬📚
17 but if you will not be circumcised, we will take our daughter, and depart.📜💬📚
18 The offer pleased Hemor and Sichem his son:📜💬📚
19 neither did the young man make delay, but forthwith fulfilled that which was demanded: for he loved the wench exceedingly, and he was the greatest man in all his father's house.📜💬📚
20 And going into the gate of the city, they spake to the people:📜💬📚
21 These men are men of peace, and are willing to dwell with us: let them occupy in the land, and till it, which being large and wide doth lack men to till it: their daughters we shall take to wife, and ours we will give to them.📜💬📚
22 One thing there is for the which so great a good is deferred: If we circumcise our man sex, following the rite of the nation.📜💬📚
23 And their substance, and cattle, and all things that they possess, shall be ours: only in this let us condescend, and dwelling together we shall make one people.📜💬📚
24 And they all assented, and circumcised all the man sex.📜💬📚
25 And behold the third day, when the grief of the wounds is most painful: Jacob's two sons Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dina, taking their swords, entered into the city boldly: and killing all the man sex,📜💬📚
26 murdered withal Hemor and Sichem, taking away Dina their sister out of Sichem's house.📜💬📚
27 When they were gone forth, the other sons of Jacob ran in upon them that were slain, and spoiled the city in revenge of the rape.📜💬📚
28 And wasting all things that were in their houses and fields, their sheep and herds, and asses,📜💬📚
29 their little ones also, and their wives they led away captive.📜💬📚
30 Which things when they had boldly achieved, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me odious to the Chanaanites, and Pherezites, the inhabiters of this land. We are few: they being gathered together will strike me; and I and my house shall be destroyed.📜💬📚
31 They answered: What? Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?📜💬📚
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