¹Dinah , the daughter of Leah , whom she bore to Jacob , went out to see the daughters of the land.

²Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite , the prince of the land, saw her . He took her , lay with her , and humbled her .

³His soul joined to Dinah , the daughter of Jacob , and he loved the young lady , and spoke kindly to the young lady .

⁴Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor , saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”

⁵Now 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 .

⁶Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him .

⁷The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it . The men were grieved , and they were very angry , because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob ’s daughter , a thing that ought not to be done .

⁸Hamor talked with them , saying , “The soul of my son , Shechem , longs for your daughter . Please give her to him as a wife .

⁹Make marriages with us . Give your daughters to us , and take our daughters for yourselves.

¹⁰You shall dwell with us , and the land will be before you . Live and trade in it , and get possessions in it .”

¹¹Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes , and whatever you will tell me I will give .

¹²Ask me a great amount for a dowry , and I will give whatever you ask of me , but give me the young lady as a wife.”

¹³The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke , because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

¹⁴and said to them , “We can ’t do this thing , to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised ; for that is a reproach to us .

¹⁵Only on this condition will we consent to you . If you will be as we are , that every male of you be circumcised ,

¹⁶then will we give our daughters to you ; and we will take your daughters to us , and we will dwell with you , and we will become one people .

¹⁷But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised , then we will take our sister, and we will be gone .”[#34:17 Hebrew has, literally, “daughter”]

¹⁸Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem , Hamor ’s son .

¹⁹The young man didn’t wait to do this thing , because he had delight in Jacob ’s daughter , and he was honored above all the house of his father.

²⁰Hamor and Shechem , his son , came to the gate of their city , and talked with the men of their city , saying ,

²¹“These men are peaceful with us . Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it . For behold , the land is large enough for them . Let ’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let ’s give them our daughters .

²²Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us , to become one people , if every male among us is circumcised , as they are circumcised .

²³Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let ’s give our consent to them , and they will dwell with us.”

²⁴All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor , and to Shechem his son ; and every male was circumcised , all who went out of the gate of his city .

²⁵On the third day , when they were sore , two of Jacob ’s sons , Simeon and Levi , Dinah ’s brothers , each took his sword , came upon the unsuspecting city , and killed all the males .

²⁶They killed Hamor and Shechem , his son , with the edge of the sword , and took Dinah out of Shechem ’s house , and went away .

²⁷Jacob ’s sons came on the dead , and plundered the city , because they had defiled their sister.

²⁸They took their flocks , their herds , their donkeys , that which was in the city , that which was in the field ,

²⁹and all their wealth . They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house .

³⁰Jacob said to Simeon and Levi , “You have troubled me , to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites . I am few in number . They will gather themselves together against me and strike me , and I will be destroyed , I and my house .”

³¹They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute ?”