Read Genesis 34

World English Bible · 31 verses

1. ¹ Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing that ought not to be done.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ then will we give our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ “These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
23. ²³ Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
24. ²⁴ All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
25. ²⁵ On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
26. ²⁶ They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
27. ²⁷ Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
28. ²⁸ They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
29. ²⁹ and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
30. ³⁰ Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
31. ³¹ They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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