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but his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob kept silent until they came in. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard <i>it</i>; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>disgraceful thing in Israel <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>by lying with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But Hamor spoke with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; please give her to him as a wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And intermarry with us; give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Thus you shall <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>live with us, and the land shall be <i>open</i> before you; <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>live and trade in it and take possession of property in it.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, “If I find favor in your sight, then I will give whatever you say to me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Ask me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; but give me the girl as a wife.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, and <i>thus</i> they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And they said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Only on this <i>condition</i> will we consent to you: if you will become like us, in that every male among you be circumcised, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>live with you and become one people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But if you will not listen to us to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Now their words seemed good in the sight of Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So the young man did not delay to do the thing because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was more honored than all the household of his father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“These men are peaceful with us; therefore let them <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>live in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>large enough for them. Let us take their daughters for us as wives and give our daughters to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Only on this <i>condition</i> will the men consent to us to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>live with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Will not their livestock and what they acquire and all their cattle be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>live with us.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Now it happened on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and came upon the unsuspecting city and killed every male. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And they killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword and took Dinah from Shechem’s house and went away. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Jacob’s sons came upon the slain and plundered the city because they had defiled their sister. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>They took their flocks and their herds and their donkeys and that which was in the city and that which was in the field; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>and they captured and plundered all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives, even all that <i>was</i> in the houses. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>my men being few in number, they will gather together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my household.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>But they said, “Should he <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>treat our sister as a harlot?”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>His soul clung</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Lit <i>senseless</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Lit <i>to lie</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>dwell</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>dwell</i><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Lit <i>dwell</i><br><span class="fnverse">21</span> Lit <i>dwell</i><br><span class="fnverse">21</span> Lit <i>wide of hands before them</i><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Lit <i>dwell</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Lit <i>dwell</i><br><span class="fnverse">30</span> Lit <i>I, few in number</i><br><span class="fnverse">31</span> Or <i>make</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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