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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 Catholic Public Domain Version</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="../">CPDV</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">Catholic Public Domain Version</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>Then Dinah, the daughter of Leah, went out to see the women of that region. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the leader of that land, had seen her, he fell in love with her. And so he seized her and slept with her, overwhelming the virgin by force. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And his soul was closely bound to her, and, since she was sorrowful, he soothed her with flattery. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And going on to Hamor, his father, he said, “Obtain this girl for me as a mate.” <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then, when Hamor, the father of Shechem, had gone out to speak to Jacob, <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>behold, his sons arrived from the field. And hearing what had happened, they were very angry, because he had done a filthy thing in Israel and, in violating a daughter of Jacob, had perpetrated an unlawful act.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And so Hamor spoke to them: “The soul of my son Shechem has become attached to your daughter. Give her to him as a wife. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And let us celebrate marriages with one with another. Give us your daughters, and receive our daughters. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And live with us. The land is in your power: cultivate, trade, and possess it.” <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Shechem even said to her father and to her brothers: “May I find favor in your sight, and whatever you will appoint, I will give. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Increase the dowry, and request gifts, and I will freely bestow what you will ask. Only give me this girl as 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>The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father with deceit, being enraged at the rape of their sister: <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“We are not able to do what you ask, nor to give our sister to an uncircumcised man. For us, this is unlawful and abominable. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But we may succeed in this, so as to be allied with you, if you are willing to become like us, and if all the male sex among you will be circumcised. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then we will mutually give and receive your daughters as well as ours; and we will live with you, and we will become one people. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But if you will not be circumcised, we will take our daughter and withdraw.”<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Their offer pleased Hamor and his son Shechem. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Neither did the young man cause any delay; in fact he immediately fulfilled what was requested. For he loved the girl very much, and he was well-known throughout his father’s house. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And entering at the gate of the city, they spoke to the people: <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“These men are peaceful, and they want to live among us. Let them trade in the land and cultivate it, for, being spacious and broad, it is in need of cultivation. We will receive their daughters as wives, and we will give them ours. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>There is one thing that prevents so great a good: whether we will circumcise our males, imitating the ritual of their nation. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And their substance, and cattle, and all that they possess, will be ours, if only we will acquiesce to this, and so, in living together, will form one people.” <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And they all agreed to circumcise every one of the males.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And behold, on the third day, when the pain of the wound was greatest, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, boldly entered the city with swords. And they put to death all of the males. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They killed Hamor and Shechem together, taking their sister Dinah from the house of Shechem. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And when they had departed, the other sons of Jacob rushed over the slain, and they plundered the city in vengeance for the rape. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Taking their sheep, and herds, and donkeys, and laying waste to everything else that was in their houses and in their fields, <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>they also took their little ones and their wives captive. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>When they had boldly completed these acts, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: “You have troubled me, and you have made me hateful to the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few. They, gathering themselves together, may strike me down, and then both I and my house will be wiped away.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>They responded, “Should they abuse our sister like a prostitute?”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/33.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 33"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 33" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/35.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 35"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 35" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>