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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 34 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/34.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/34-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Genesis 34</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/33.htm" title="Genesis 33">◄</a> Genesis 34 <a href="../genesis/35.htm" title="Genesis 35">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/genesis/34-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Defiling of Dinah<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she brought forth to Jacob, will go forth to see the daughters of the land. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Shechem will see her, the son of Hamor the Hivite, chief of the land; will take her, and lie with her, and will humble her. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And his soul will cleave to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he will love the maiden, and he will speak to the heart of the maiden. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And Shechem will say to Hamor his father, saying, Take to me this maid for a wife. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Jacob heard that he defiled Dinah his daughter: and his sons were with his cattle in the field, and Jacob was silent till their coming. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Hamor the father of Shechem will go forth to Jacob to speak to him. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the sons of Jacob came from the field when they having heard: and the men will be grieved, and it will be kindled to them exceedingly because he did folly in Israel, to lie with Jacob's daughter; and thus it shall not be done.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Hamor will speak with them, saying, The soul of Shechem my son, was attached with his soul to your daughter; now give her to him for a wife. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And contract ye marriages with us; ye shall give your daughters to us, and ye shall take our daughters to you. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And ye shall dwell with us, and the land shall be before you; dwell ye and traffic in it, and take possession in it. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Shechem will say to her father, and to her brethren, Shall I find favor in your eyes? and what ye shall say to me I will give. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Increase to me greatly the dowry and gift, and I will give according to that ye shall say to me; and ye shall give to me this maiden for a wife.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">The Revenge of Dinah’s Brothers<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the sons of Jacob will answer Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and will say, Because he defiled Dinah their sister. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And they will say to them, We shall not be able to do this word, to give our sister to a man which to him is uncircumcision; for this a reproach to us. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But in this will we consent to you, if ye will be as we to circumcise to you every male; <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you and be one people. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And if ye will not listen to us to be circumcised, and we will take out daughter and depart.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And their words will be pleasing in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shechem, Hamor's son. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the youth deferred not to do the word, for he delighted in Jacob's daughter, and he was honorable more than all his father's house. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Hamor will come, and Shechem his son, to the gate of their city, and they will speak to the men of the city, saying, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>These men they are living peacefully with us, and they shall dwell in the land, and traffic in it; and the land, behold, being broad to the hands before them: we will take their daughters to us for wives, and give our daughters to them. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Only in this will the men consent to us to dwell with us to be for one people, in the circumcising to us every male according as they having been circumcised. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Their cattle and their possession and all their quadrupeds, shall they not be to us? only we will consent to them, and they will dwell with us. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And to Hamor and to Shechem his son, will listen all going out of the gate of the city: and they will circumcise every male, all going out of the gate of the city.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And it will be in the third day, in their having pain, and the two sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, will take a man his sword, and will go against the city securely, and will kill every male. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son, with the mouth of the sword; and they will take Dinah from the house of Shechem, and go forth. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The sons of Jacob came upon the wounded, and they will plunder the city, because they defiled their sister. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Their sheep and their oxen and their asses, and what was in the city, and what in the field, they took. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And all their force and all their little ones, and their wives they led captive, and they will plunder all which is in the house. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And Jacob will say to Simeon and to Levi, Ye troubled me to make me evil to him dwelling in the land to the Canaanites, and to the Perizzites and I men of number, and they will gather together and smite me, and I all be destroyed, and my house. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And they will say, Shall he do to our sister as an harlot?<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; 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