Genesis Chapter 34
Dinah and the Shechemites
1 Leah’s daughter Dinah went out to visit the daughters in the area. 2 When Shechem Ben-Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the territory, saw her, he took her and lay with her. 3 He was deeply attracted to her, and loved her, and spoke tenderly to her. 4 Shechem spoke to his father, “Get me this young girl for a wife.” 5 Jacob heard that he’d defiled Dinah, but his sons were with his livestock in the pasture; he kept quiet till they came in. 6 Then Hamor went to speak to Jacob. 7 Jacob’s sons came in from the pasture when they heard. They were grieved and mad, because Shechem had done such an awful thing in Israel. Something like that shouldn’t be done.
Gen 34:1-7
8 But Hamor said to them,
“My son longs for your daughter. Let him marry her. 9 Intermarry with us. 10 That way you’ll live with us, and the country will be open to you. Live, carry on business, and buy property in it.”
11 Shechem also told her father and brothers, “If I’m pleasing to you, I’ll give whatever you say. 12 Ask me whatever bridal price and gift, and I’ll give it, but let me marry the girl.”
13 But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father with deception because Shechem had defiled their sister,
14 “We can’t give our sister to someone that’s not circumcised. That would be offensive to us. 15 There’s only one way we’ll consent. If you’ll become like us by circumcising every male among you, 16 we’ll intermarry with you and live with you as one people. 17 If you won’t be circumcised, we’ll take our daughter and go.”
Gen 34:8-17
18 Their proposal seemed agreeable to Hamor and Shechem. 19 The young man didn’t delay doing what they asked because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. He was more respected than anybody else in his father’s family. 20 He and Hamor went to their city gate and said,
21 “These men are peaceful with us. Let them live in the land and do business here. The land is big enough for them. Let them intermarry with us. 22 Only on this condition will they agree to live with us and become one people: every male among us must be circumcised like they are. 23 Won’t their livestock, property, and animals be ours? Let’s agree with them, and they’ll live with us.”
24 Everybody that went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and Shechem, and every male was circumcised.
Gen 34:18-24
25 On the third day, when the men in Shechem were very sore, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took a sword apiece and attacked the city by surprise and killed every male. 26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and left. 27 Jacob’s sons came on the slain and looted the city because they’d defiled their sister. 28 They took their flocks, herds, donkeys, what was in the city and in the countryside. 29 They captured and looted their wealth, took their little ones, their wives, and everything in the houses. 30 Jacob told Simeon and Levi,
“You’ve created a problem for me and made me repulsive to the Canaanites and Perizzites here. We only have a few men. They’ll gather against me and destroy me and my household.”
31 They said, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?”
Gen 34:25-31