Genesis 34

¹And Dina the daughter of Lia went forth to see the women of that country.

²Whom when Sichem had seen, the son of Hemor the Hevite, 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.

³And his soul was fast knit unto her, and whereas she was sad, he comforted her with sweet words.

⁴And going to Hemor his father, he said: Take me this wench to be my wife.

⁵Which when Jacob had heard, his sons being absent and occupied in feeding of the cattle, he held his peace till they returned.

⁶And when Hemor, Sichem's father was come forth to speak unto Jacob,

⁷behold 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.

⁸Hemor therefore spake to them: The soul of my son Sichem is fastened to your daughter: Give her unto him to wife:

⁹and let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters, and take you our daughters.

¹⁰And dwell with us: the land is at your commandment, till, occupy, and possess it.

¹¹Yea 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:

¹²raise the dowry, and require gifts, and I shall gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this wench to wife.

¹³Jacob's sons answered Sichem & his father in guile, being wrath for the deflowering of their sister:

¹⁴We cannot do that which you demand, nor give our sister to an uncircumcised person; which with us is an unlawful & abominable thing.

¹⁵But in this order we may be considerate, if you will be like to us, and all the man sex among you be circumcised:

¹⁶then will we give and take mutually your daughters, and ours: and we will dwell with you, and will be one people:

¹⁷but if you will not be circumcised, we will take our daughter, and depart.

¹⁸The offer pleased Hemor and Sichem his son:

¹⁹neither 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.

²⁰And going into the gate of the city, they spake to the people:

²¹These 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.

²²One thing there is for the which so great a good is deferred: If we circumcise our men sex, following the rite of the nation.

²³And 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.

²⁴And they all assented, and circumcised all the man sex.

²⁵And 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,

²⁶murdered withal Hemor and Sichem, taking away Dina their sister out of Sichem's house.

²⁷When 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.

²⁸And wasting all things that were in their houses and fields, their sheep and herds, and asses,

²⁹their little ones also, and their wives they led away captive.

³⁰Which things when they had boldly achieved, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me odious to the Chananites, 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.

³¹They answered: What? Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?