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He loved the girl and spoke tenderly to her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So Shechem said to his father Hamor, "Get me this girl for my wife." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Shechem's father Hamor came to Jacob to speak with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Jacob's sons came in from the open country as soon as they heard the news. The men felt outraged and very angry because Shechem had committed such a godless act against Israel's family by raping Jacob's daughter. This shouldn't have happened.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Hamor told them. "My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please let her marry him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take ours for yourselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You can live with us, and the land will be yours. Live here, move about freely in this area, and acquire property here." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and her brothers, "Do me this favor. I'll give you whatever you ask. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Set the price I must pay for the bride and the gift I must give her as high as you want. I'll pay exactly what you tell me. Give me the girl as my wife."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Jacob's sons gave Shechem and his father Hamor a misleading answer because he had dishonored their sister Dinah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They said, "We can't do this. We can't give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised. That would be a disgrace to us! <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>We will give our consent to you only on one condition: Every male must be circumcised as we are. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then we'll give our daughters to you and take yours for ourselves, and we'll live with you and become one people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>If you won't agree to be circumcised, we'll take our daughter and go."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The young man didn't waste any time in doing what they said because he took such pleasure in Jacob's daughter. He was the most honored person in all his father's family. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So Hamor and his son Shechem went to their city gate to speak to the men of their city. They said, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>"These people are friendly toward us, so let them live in our land and move about freely in the area. Look, there's plenty of room in this land for them. We can marry their daughters and let them marry ours. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>These people will consent to live with us and become one nation on one condition: Every male must be circumcised as they are. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Won't their livestock, their personal property, and all their animals be ours? We only need to agree to do this for them. Then they'll live with us." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>All the men who had come out to the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. So they were all circumcised at the city gate.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Two days later, while the men were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and boldly attacked the city. They killed every man <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>including Hamor and his son Shechem. They took Dinah from Shechem's home and left. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then Jacob's sons stripped the corpses and looted the city where their sister had been dishonored. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>They took the sheep and goats, cattle, donkeys, and whatever else was in the city or out in the fields. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>They carried off all the wealth and all the women and children and looted everything 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 caused me a lot of trouble! You've made the people living in the area, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, hate me. There are only a few of us. If they join forces against me and attack me, my family and I will be wiped out." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/34-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Simeon and Levi asked, "Should Shechem have been allowed to treat our sister like a prostitute?"</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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