BERESHITH (GENESIS) 34

Gen 34:1 And Dinah, the daughter of Lĕ’ah, whom she had borne to
Ya‛aqoḇ, went out to see the daughters of the land.
Gen 34:2 And Sheḵem, son of Ḥamor the Ḥiwwite, prince of the land, saw
her and took her and lay with her, and humbled her.
Gen 34:3 And his being clung to Dinah the daughter of Ya‛aqoḇ, and he
loved the girl and spoke kindly to the girl.
Gen 34:4 And Sheḵem spoke to his father Ḥamor, saying, “Take this girl for
me for a wife.”
Gen 34:5 And Ya‛aqoḇ heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. Now
his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Ya‛aqoḇ kept silent until they
came.
Gen 34:6 And Ḥamor, the father of Sheḵem, went out to Ya‛aqoḇ to speak
with him.
Gen 34:7 And the sons of Ya‛aqoḇ came in from the field when they heard it.
And the men were grieved and very wroth, because he had done a senseless
deed in Yisra’ĕl by lying with Ya‛aqoḇ’s daughter, which should not be done.
Gen 34:8 But Ḥamor spoke with them, saying, “My son Sheḵem’s being
longs for your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife.
Gen 34:9 “And intermarry with us, give us your daughters and take our
daughters for yourselves,
Gen 34:10 and dwell with us, and let the land be before you. Dwell and
move about in it, and have possessions in it.”
Gen 34:11 And Sheḵem said to her father and her brothers, “Let me find
favour in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I give.
Gen 34:12 “Ask of me a bride price and gift ever so high, and I give
according to what you say to me, but give me the girl for a wife.”
Gen 34:13 But the sons of Ya‛aqoḇ answered Sheḵem and Ḥamor his father,
and spoke with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.
Gen 34:14 And they said to them, “We are not able to do this matter, to give
our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us.
Gen 34:15 “Only on this condition would we agree to you: If you become as
we are, to have every male of you circumcised,
Gen 34:16 then we shall give our daughters to you, and take your daughters
to us. And we shall dwell with you, and shall become one people.
Gen 34:17 “But if you do not listen to us and be circumcised, we shall take
our daughter and go.”
Gen 34:18 And their words pleased Ḥamor and Sheḵem, Ḥamor’s son.
Gen 34:19 And the young man did not delay to do this because he delighted
in Ya‛aqoḇ’s daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of
his father.
Gen 34:20 And Ḥamor and Sheḵem his son came to the gate of their city, and
spoke with the men of their city, saying,
Gen 34:21 “These men are at peace with us, so let them dwell in the land
and move about in it. And see, the land is large enough for them. Let us take
their daughters for us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
Gen 34:22 “Only on this condition would the men agree to dwell with us, to
be one people: if every male among us is circumcised as they are
circumcised.
Gen 34:23 “Their herds and their possessions, and all their beasts, should
they not be ours? Only let us agree with them, and let them dwell with us.”
Gen 34:24 And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Ḥamor
and Sheḵem his son; every male was circumcised, all who went out of the
gate of his city.
Gen 34:25 And it came to be on the third day, when they were in pain, that
two of the sons of Ya‛aqoḇ, Shim‛on and Lĕwi, Dinah’s brothers, each took
his sword and came boldly upon the city and killed all the males.
Gen 34:26 And they killed Ḥamor and Sheḵem his son with the edge of the
sword, and took Dinah from Sheḵem’s house, and went out.
Gen 34:27 The sons of Ya‛aqoḇ came upon the slain, and plundered the city,
because they had defiled their sister.
Gen 34:28 They took their flocks and their herds, and their donkeys, and that
which was in the city and that which was in the field,
Gen 34:29 and all their wealth. And all their little ones and their wives they
took captive, and they plundered all that was in the houses.
Gen 34:30 And Ya‛aqoḇ said to Shim‛on and Lĕwi, “You have troubled me
by making me a stench among the inhabitants of the land, among the
Kena‛anites and the Perizzites. And I am few in number, they shall gather
themselves against me and shall smite me, and I shall be destroyed, my
household and I.”
Gen 34:31 But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a whore?”