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Dinah is raviſhed by Shechem.
CHAP. XXXIV.
The Shechemites ſlain.

Before
CHRIST
1739.

Before
CHRIST
cir. 1732.

16 So Eſau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

17 ¶ And Jacob journeyed to [1] Succoth, and built him an houſe, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called ‖‖ That is, booths. Succoth.

18 ¶ And Jacob came to [2] Shalem, a city of ‖‖ Called, Acts 7. 16. Sychem. [3] Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city.

19 And [4] he bought a parcel of a field, where he h0ad ſpread his tent, at the hand of the children of ‖‖ Called, Acts 7. 16, Emmor, Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred ‖‖ Or, lembs. pieces of money.

20 And he erected there an altar, and [5] called it ‖‖ That is, God the God of Iſrael. El-elohe-Iſrael.

CHAP. XXXIV.

1 Dinah is raviſhed by Shechem. 4 He ſueth to marry her. 13 The ſons of Jacob offer the condition of circumciſion to the Shechemites. 20 Hamor and Shechem perſuade them to accept it. 25 The ſons of Jacob taking advantage thereof ſlay them and ſpoil their city. 30 Jacob reproveth Simeon and Levi.

cir. 1732.And [6] Dinah the daughter of Leah, which ſhe bare unto Jacob, [7] went out to ſee the daughters of the land.

2 And when Shechem the ſon of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, [8] ſaw her, he [9] took her, and lay with her, and †† Heb. humbled her.
Deut. 22. 29.
defiled her.

3 And his ſoul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damſel, and ſpake †† Heb. to the heart of the damſel.
See Iſai. 40. 2.
Hoſ. 2. 14.
kindly unto the damſel.

4 ¶ And Shechem [10] ſpake unto his father Hamor, ſaying, Get me this damſel to wife.

5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his ſons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob [11] held his peace until they were come.

6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

7 And the ſons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they [12] were very wroth, becauſe he [13] had wrought folly in Iſrael in lying with Jacob's daughter; [14] which thing ought not to be done.

8 And Hamor communed with them, ſaying, The ſoul of my ſon Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.

9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

10 And ye ſhall dwell with us: and [15] the land ſhall be before you; dwell and [16] trade ye therein, and [17] get you poſſeſſions therein.

11 And Shechem ſaid unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye ſhall ſay unto me I will give.

12 Aſk me never ſo much [18] dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye ſhall ſay unto me: but give me the damſel to wife.

13 ¶ And the ſons of Jacob anſwered Shechem and Hamor his father [19] deceitfully, and ſaid, becauſe he had defiled Dinah their ſiſter:

14 And they ſaid unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our ſiſter to one that is uncircumciſed; for [20] that were a reproach unto us:

15 But in this will we conſent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumciſed;

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

17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumciſed; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

18 And their words pleaſed Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's ſon.

19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, becauſe he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was [21] more honourable than all the houſe of his father.

20 ¶ And Hamor and Shechem his ſon came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, ſaying,

21 Theſe men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

22 Only herein will the men conſent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumciſed, as they are circumciſed.

23 Shall not their cattle and their ſubſtance and every beaſt of their's be ours? only let us conſent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his ſon hearkened all that [22] went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumciſed, all that went out of the gate of his city.

25 ¶ And it came to paſs on the third day, when they were ſore, that two of the ſons of Jacob, [23] Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his ſword, and came upon the city boldly, and ſlew all the males.

26 And they ſlew Hamor and Shechem
  1. Joſh. 13. 27.
    Judg. 8. 5.
    Pſ. 60. 6.
  2. John 3. 23.
  3. Joſh. 24. 1.
    Judg. 9. 1.
  4. Joſh. 24. 31.
    John 4. 5.
  5. ch. 35. 7.
  6. ch. 30. 21.
  7. Tit. 2. 5.
  8. ch 6. 2.
    Judg. 14. 1.
  9. ch. 20. 2.
  10. Judg. 14. 2.
  11. 1 Sam. 10. 27.
    2 Sam. 13. 22.
  12. ch. 49. 7.
    2 Sam. 13. 21.
  13. Joſh. 7. 15.
    Judg. 10. 2.
  14. Deut. 23. 17.
    2 Sam. 13. 12.
  15. ch. 13. 9. & 20. 15.
  16. ch. 42. 34.
  17. ch. 47. 27.
  18. Exod. 22. 16, 17.
    Deut. 22. 29.
    1 Sam. 18. 25.
  19. See 2 Sam. 13. 24, &c.
  20. Joſh. 5. 9.
  21. 2 Chro. 4. 9.
  22. ch. 23. 10.
  23. ch. 49. 5, 6, 7.