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But since his sons were out in the fields herding his livestock, he said nothing until they returned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/genesis/34.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. But his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/genesis/34.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent about it until they returned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/genesis/34.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/genesis/34.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. Now his sons were with his livestock in the field; so Jacob held his peace until they came.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/genesis/34.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah; but his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob said nothing until they came in.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/genesis/34.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; but his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob kept silent until they came in.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/genesis/34.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; but his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob kept silent until they came in.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/genesis/34.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; but his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob kept silent until they came in.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/genesis/34.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Now Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled (violated) Dinah his daughter; but his sons were in the field with his livestock, so Jacob said nothing until they came in.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/genesis/34.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent until they returned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/genesis/34.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent until they returned. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/genesis/34.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they came.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/genesis/34.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Meanwhile, Jacob heard what had happened. But his sons were out in the fields with the cattle, so he did not do anything at the time. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/genesis/34.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they came.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/genesis/34.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Jacob heard that Shechem had dishonored his daughter Dinah. His sons were with his livestock out in the open country, so Jacob kept quiet until they came home.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/genesis/34.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Jacob learned that his daughter had been disgraced, but because his sons were out in the fields with his livestock, he did nothing until they came back. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/genesis/34.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Because Jacob learned that Shechem had dishonored his daughter Dinah while his sons were still out with their cattle on the open range, he remained silent until they returned. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/genesis/34.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />When Jacob heard that Shechem had violated his daughter Dinah, his sons were with the livestock in the field. So Jacob remained silent until they came in. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/genesis/34.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob remained silent until they came.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/genesis/34.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter (now his sons were with his cattle in the field:) and Jacob held his peace till they had come.<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/genesis/34.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent about it until they returned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/genesis/34.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />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. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/genesis/34.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And Jacob has heard that he has defiled his daughter Dinah, and his sons were with his livestock in the field, and Jacob kept silent until their coming.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/genesis/34.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Jacob hath heard that he hath defiled Dinah his daughter, and his sons were with his cattle in the field, and Jacob kept silent till their coming.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/genesis/34.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />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.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/genesis/34.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />But when Jacob had heard this, his sons being absent, and employed in feeding the cattle, he held his peace till they came back. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/genesis/34.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />But when Jacob had heard this, since his sons were absent and he was occupied in pasturing the cattle, he remained silent until they came back.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/genesis/34.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Meanwhile, Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah; but since his sons were out in the field with his livestock, Jacob kept quiet until they came home.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/genesis/34.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Now Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah; but his sons were with his cattle in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/genesis/34.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And Jacob heard that Dinah his daughter had been defiled; now his sons were with the cattle in the field; so Jacob held his peace until they came.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/genesis/34.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And Yaquuv heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter, and his sons were with the livestock in the field, and Yaquuv was silent until they came.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/genesis/34.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field; and Jacob held his peace until they came.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/genesis/34.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And Jacob heard that the son of Emmor had defiled Dina his daughter (now his sons were with his cattle in the plain). And Jacob was silent until they came.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/34-5.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ehevn8iSgc?start=8520" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/genesis/34.htm">The Defiling of Dinah</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">4</span>So Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.” <span class="reftext">5</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3290.htm" title="3290: wə·ya·‘ă·qōḇ (Conj-w:: N-proper-ms) -- A son of Isaac, also his desc. From aqab; heel-catcher; Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch.">Jacob</a> <a href="/hebrew/8085.htm" title="8085: šā·ma‘ (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To hear. A primitive root; to hear intelligently.">heard</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">that</a> <a href="/hebrew/2930.htm" title="2930: ṭim·mê (V-Piel-Perf-3ms) -- To be or become unclean. A primitive root; to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense.">Shechem had defiled</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1323.htm" title="1323: ḇit·tōw (N-fsc:: 3ms) -- Daughter. From banah; a daughter.">his daughter</a> <a href="/hebrew/1783.htm" title="1783: dî·nāh (N-proper-fs) -- Daughter of Jacob. Fem. Of duwn; justice; Dinah, the daughter of Jacob.">Dinah,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: ū·ḇā·nāw (Conj-w:: N-mpc:: 3ms) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">but since his sons</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: hā·yū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">were</a> <a href="/hebrew/854.htm" title="854: ’eṯ- (Prep) -- With (denoting proximity). Probably from 'anah; properly, nearness, near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc.">with</a> <a href="/hebrew/4735.htm" title="4735: miq·nê·hū (N-msc:: 3ms) -- Cattle. From qanah; something bought, i.e. Property, but only livestock; abstractly, acquisition.">his livestock</a> <a href="/hebrew/7704.htm" title="7704: baś·śā·ḏeh (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- Field, land. Or saday; from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field.">in the field,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3290.htm" title="3290: ya·‘ă·qōḇ (N-proper-ms) -- A son of Isaac, also his desc. From aqab; heel-catcher; Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch.">he</a> <a href="/hebrew/2790.htm" title="2790: wə·he·ḥĕ·riš (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConjPerf-3ms) -- To cut in, engrave, plow, devise.">remained silent about it</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ- (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">until</a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: bō·’ām (V-Qal-Inf:: 3mp) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">they returned.</a> </span><span class="reftext">6</span>Meanwhile, Shechem’s father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/49-5.htm">Genesis 49:5-7</a></span><br />Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence. / May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim. / Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/30-20.htm">Genesis 30:20-21</a></span><br />“God has given me a good gift,” she said. “This time my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” And she named him Zebulun. / After that, Leah gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/29-31.htm">Genesis 29:31-35</a></span><br />When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren. / And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.” / Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has given me this son as well.” So she named him Simeon. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/37-34.htm">Genesis 37:34-35</a></span><br />Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days. / All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/46-15.htm">Genesis 46:15</a></span><br />These are the sons of Leah born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. The total number of sons and daughters was thirty-three.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/2-1.htm">Exodus 2:1-10</a></span><br />Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, / and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months. / But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/12-1.htm">Numbers 12:1-15</a></span><br />Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife. / “Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this. / Now Moses was a very humble man, more so than any man on the face of the earth. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-28.htm">Deuteronomy 22:28-29</a></span><br />If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered, / then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_samuel/13-1.htm">2 Samuel 13:1-22</a></span><br />After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom. / Amnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to do anything to her. / Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_samuel/13-37.htm">2 Samuel 13:37-39</a></span><br />Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day. / After Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years. / And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_chronicles/2-1.htm">1 Chronicles 2:1</a></span><br />These were the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/12-5.htm">Psalm 12:5</a></span><br />“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/82-3.htm">Psalm 82:3-4</a></span><br />Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed. / Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/31-8.htm">Proverbs 31:8-9</a></span><br />Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed. / Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-17.htm">Isaiah 1:17</a></span><br />Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.</p><p class="hdg">now his.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/30-35.htm">Genesis 30:35</a></b></br> And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, <i>and</i> every one that had <i>some</i> white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave <i>them</i> into the hand of his sons.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/37-13.htm">Genesis 37:13,14</a></b></br> And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed <i>the flock</i> in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here <i>am I</i>… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/10-27.htm">1 Samuel 10:27</a></b></br> But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.</p><p class="hdg">held.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/10-3.htm">Leviticus 10:3</a></b></br> Then Moses said unto Aaron, This <i>is it</i> that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/39-9.htm">Psalm 39:9</a></b></br> I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst <i>it</i>.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/genesis/33-17.htm">Cattle</a> <a href="/genesis/34-3.htm">Daughter</a> <a href="/genesis/34-2.htm">Defiled</a> <a href="/genesis/34-3.htm">Dinah</a> <a href="/genesis/33-19.htm">Field</a> <a href="/genesis/32-3.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/genesis/31-1.htm">Heard</a> <a href="/genesis/27-41.htm">Held</a> <a href="/genesis/31-55.htm">Home</a> <a href="/genesis/34-3.htm">Jacob</a> <a href="/genesis/31-41.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/genesis/33-17.htm">Livestock</a> <a href="/genesis/33-18.htm">Peace</a> <a href="/genesis/25-27.htm">Quiet</a> <a href="/genesis/34-4.htm">Shechem</a> <a href="/genesis/24-21.htm">Silent</a> <a href="/genesis/32-19.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/34-23.htm">Cattle</a> <a href="/genesis/34-7.htm">Daughter</a> <a href="/genesis/34-13.htm">Defiled</a> <a href="/genesis/34-13.htm">Dinah</a> <a href="/genesis/34-7.htm">Field</a> <a href="/genesis/34-7.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/genesis/34-7.htm">Heard</a> <a href="/genesis/39-22.htm">Held</a> <a href="/genesis/35-27.htm">Home</a> <a href="/genesis/34-6.htm">Jacob</a> <a href="/genesis/37-7.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/genesis/34-23.htm">Livestock</a> <a href="/genesis/37-14.htm">Peace</a> <a href="/exodus/14-14.htm">Quiet</a> <a href="/genesis/34-6.htm">Shechem</a> <a href="/exodus/14-14.htm">Silent</a> <a href="/genesis/37-4.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Genesis 34</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/34-1.htm">Dinah is ravished by Shechem.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/34-4.htm">He requests to marry her.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/34-13.htm">The sons of Jacob offer the condition of circumcision to the Shechemites.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">20. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/34-20.htm">Hamor and Shechem persuade them to accept it.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">25. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/34-25.htm">The sons of Jacob upon that advantage slay them, and spoil their city.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">30. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/34-30.htm">Jacob reproves Simeon and Levi.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/genesis/34.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/genesis/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/genesis/34.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah</b><br>Jacob, the patriarch, is informed of the violation of his daughter, Dinah, by Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite. This event takes place in the land of Canaan, where Jacob had settled after returning from Paddan Aram. The defilement of Dinah is a significant event, as it not only affects Jacob's family but also has broader implications for the relationship between Jacob's family and the inhabitants of the land. The act of defilement is seen as a grave sin, violating the sanctity of Dinah and the honor of Jacob's family. This incident foreshadows the tension and conflict that will arise between the Israelites and the Canaanites, highlighting the moral and cultural differences between them.<p><b>but since his sons were with his livestock in the field</b><br>Jacob's sons, who would later become the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel, are occupied with tending to the family's livestock. This detail underscores the pastoral lifestyle of the patriarchs, who were primarily shepherds and herdsmen. The mention of the sons being in the field indicates their responsibility and involvement in the family's economic activities. It also sets the stage for their reaction to the news of Dinah's defilement, as they are not immediately present to respond to the situation. The pastoral setting reflects the nomadic nature of Jacob's family and their dependence on livestock for sustenance and wealth.<p><b>he remained silent about it until they returned</b><br>Jacob's silence can be interpreted in several ways. It may indicate his shock and grief over the incident, as well as his cautious nature in dealing with such a sensitive matter. His decision to wait for his sons' return suggests the importance of family unity and collective decision-making in addressing the crisis. This silence also highlights Jacob's role as a patriarch who must balance his emotions with the need for wise leadership. The delay in response allows for the development of a plan, which ultimately leads to the subsequent actions taken by his sons. Jacob's silence is a moment of tension, reflecting the gravity of the situation and the potential for conflict.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/jacob.htm">Jacob</a></b><br>The patriarch of the Israelite tribes, father of Dinah, and a central figure in this account. His response to the defilement of his daughter is a focal point in this verse.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/d/dinah.htm">Dinah</a></b><br>The daughter of Jacob and Leah, whose defilement by Shechem sets off a series of events that impact her family and the surrounding communities.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/s/shechem.htm">Shechem</a></b><br>The son of Hamor the Hivite, who defiled Dinah. His actions lead to significant conflict between his people and Jacob's family.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/j/jacob's_sons.htm">Jacob's Sons</a></b><br>They are tending livestock in the field at the time of the incident. Their reaction upon returning is crucial to the unfolding events.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_field.htm">The Field</a></b><br>Represents the place of work and daily life for Jacob's sons, highlighting the interruption of normalcy by the crisis at hand.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_weight_of_silence.htm">The Weight of Silence</a></b><br>Jacob's initial silence can be seen as a moment of contemplation or indecision. In our lives, how do we balance the need for thoughtful response with the urgency of action in the face of injustice?<br><br><b><a href="/topical/f/family_dynamics_and_leadership.htm">Family Dynamics and Leadership</a></b><br>Jacob's role as a father and leader is tested. This challenges us to consider how we lead and protect our families, especially in times of crisis.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_impact_of_sin.htm">The Impact of Sin</a></b><br>Shechem's sin has far-reaching consequences, affecting not just individuals but entire communities. Reflect on how personal sin can ripple outwards, impacting others.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/j/justice_and_vengeance.htm">Justice and Vengeance</a></b><br>The subsequent actions of Jacob's sons raise questions about justice and vengeance. How do we seek justice in a way that aligns with biblical principles?<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_and_accountability.htm">Community and Accountability</a></b><br>The involvement of Jacob's sons highlights the importance of community and accountability. How do we hold each other accountable in our communities of faith?<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_genesis_34.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Genesis 34</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/genesis_34_27-29__how_does_it_align_with_later_laws.htm">Genesis 34:27-29 - How does the looting and enslavement of the city align with later biblical laws condemning such acts?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_did_simeon_and_levi_punish_a_city.htm">Genesis 34:13-29 - Why would Simeon and Levi punish an entire city for one man's crime, and is there historical or archaeological evidence of such collective retribution?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/any_evidence_of_'terror_of_god'_aiding_jacob.htm">(Genesis 35:5) Is there any historical or scientific record supporting the 'terror of God' preventing nearby cities from pursuing Jacob's family?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/who_was_dinah_in_the_bible.htm">Who was Dinah in the Bible?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/genesis/34.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(5) <span class= "bld">Jacob heard.</span>--As Dinah did not return home (<a href="/genesis/34-26.htm" title="And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.">Genesis 34:26</a>), her father probably learned her dishonour from the maidservants who had gone out with her. But "he held his peace," chiefly from his usual cautiousness, as being no match for the Hivites, but partly because Leah's sons had the right to be the upholders of their sister's honour.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/genesis/34.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 5.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And Jacob heard</span> - most likely from some of Dinah's companions (Patrick), since she herself was still detained in She-chore's house (ver. 26) - <span class="cmt_word">that he</span> (Hamor's son) <span class="cmt_word">had defiled</span> - the verb here employed conveys the idea of rendering unclean (cf. vers. 13, 27; <a href="/numbers/19-13.htm">Numbers 19:13</a>; <a href="/2_kings/23-10.htm">2 Kings 23:10</a>; <a href="/psalms/79-1.htm">Psalm 79:1</a>; that in ver. 2 expresses the notion of violence) - <span class="cmt_word">Dinah his daughter</span>. It was an aggravation of Shechem's wickedness that it was perpetrated not against any of Jacob's handmaids, but against his daughter. <span class="cmt_word">Now</span> (literally, and) <span class="cmt_word">his sons were with his cattle in the field</span> - perhaps that which he had lately purchased (<a href="/genesis/33-19.htm">Genesis 33:19</a>), or in some pasture ground more remote from the city. <span class="cmt_word">And Jacob held his peace</span> - literally, <span class="accented">acted as one dumb, i.e.</span> maintained silence upon the painful subject, and took no measures to avenge Shechem s crime (cf. <a href="/genesis/24-21.htm">Genesis 24:21</a>; <a href="/1_samuel/10-27.htm">1 Samuel 10:27</a>; <a href="/2_samuel/13-22.htm">2 Samuel 13:22</a>); either through sorrow (Ainsworth, Calvin), or through caution (Murphy, Lange), or through perplexity, as not knowing how to act (Kalisch), or as recognizing the right of his sons by the same mother to have a voice in the settlement of so important a question (Kurtz, Gerlach), to which undoubtedly the next clause points - <span class="cmt_word">until they were come</span> - literally, <span class="accented">until their coming</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/genesis/34-5.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Jacob</span><br /><span class="heb">וְיַעֲקֹ֣ב</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ya·‘ă·qōḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3290.htm">Strong's 3290: </a> </span><span class="str2">Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc</span><br /><br /><span class="word">heard</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׁמַ֗ע</span> <span class="translit">(šā·ma‘)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8085.htm">Strong's 8085: </a> </span><span class="str2">To hear intelligently</span><br /><br /><span class="word">that</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּ֤י</span> <span class="translit">(kî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Shechem had defiled</span><br /><span class="heb">טִמֵּא֙</span> <span class="translit">(ṭim·mê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2930.htm">Strong's 2930: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be or become unclean</span><br /><br /><span class="word">his daughter</span><br /><span class="heb">בִתּ֔וֹ</span> <span class="translit">(ḇit·tōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1323.htm">Strong's 1323: </a> </span><span class="str2">A daughter</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Dinah,</span><br /><span class="heb">דִּינָ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(dî·nāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1783.htm">Strong's 1783: </a> </span><span class="str2">Dinah -- daughter of Jacob</span><br /><br /><span class="word">but since his sons</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבָנָ֛יו</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇā·nāw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> </span><span class="str2">A son</span><br /><br /><span class="word">were</span><br /><span class="heb">הָי֥וּ</span> <span class="translit">(hā·yū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fall out, come to pass, become, be</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶת־</span> <span class="translit">(’eṯ-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_854.htm">Strong's 854: </a> </span><span class="str2">Nearness, near, with, by, at, among</span><br /><br /><span class="word">his livestock</span><br /><span class="heb">מִקְנֵ֖הוּ</span> <span class="translit">(miq·nê·hū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4735.htm">Strong's 4735: </a> </span><span class="str2">Something bought, property, livestock, acquisition</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in the field,</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּשָּׂדֶ֑ה</span> <span class="translit">(baś·śā·ḏeh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7704.htm">Strong's 7704: </a> </span><span class="str2">Field, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">he</span><br /><span class="heb">יַעֲקֹ֖ב</span> <span class="translit">(ya·‘ă·qōḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3290.htm">Strong's 3290: </a> </span><span class="str2">Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc</span><br /><br /><span class="word">held his peace</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהֶחֱרִ֥שׁ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·he·ḥĕ·riš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2790.htm">Strong's 2790: </a> </span><span class="str2">To cut in, engrave, plow, devise</span><br /><br /><span class="word">until</span><br /><span class="heb">עַד־</span> <span class="translit">(‘aḏ-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> </span><span class="str2">As far as, even to, up to, until, while</span><br /><br /><span class="word">they returned.</span><br /><span class="heb">בֹּאָֽם׃</span> <span class="translit">(bō·’ām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> </span><span class="str2">To come in, come, go in, go</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/34-5.htm">Genesis 34:5 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/genesis/34-5.htm">Genesis 34:5 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/genesis/34-5.htm">Genesis 34:5 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/genesis/34-5.htm">Genesis 34:5 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/genesis/34-5.htm">Genesis 34:5 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/34-5.htm">Genesis 34:5 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/34-5.htm">Genesis 34:5 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/34-5.htm">Genesis 34:5 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/34-5.htm">Genesis 34:5 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/genesis/34-5.htm">Genesis 34:5 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/genesis/34-5.htm">OT Law: Genesis 34:5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled (Gen. 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