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sheep, and kine with yong: which if I cause to ouerlabour themselues in going, in one day al the flocks wil die. ¹⁴It may please my Lord to goe before his seruant: and I wil follow softly after him, as I shal see my litle ones to be able, vntil I come to my lord in Seir. ¹⁵Esau answered: I beseech thee, that of my people at the least wise which is with me, there may remaine some to accompanie thee in the way. It is not needful, said he, this only I haue need of, that I may find grace (my Lord) in thy sight. ¹⁶Esau therfore returned that day the same way that he came, into Seir. ¹⁷And Iacob commeth into Socoth: where hauing built a house, and pitched his tents, he called the name of that place Socoth, that is, Tabernacles, ¹⁸and he passed into Salem a citie of the Sichimites, which is in the land of Chanaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Siria: and he dwelt beside the towne. ¹⁹And he bought that part of the field, wherin he had pitched his tents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem, for an hundred lambs. ²⁰And erecting an altar there, on it he called vpon the most Mightie God of Israel.

 

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CHAP. XXXIIIV.

 

For rauishing Dina the Sichimites (being first circumcised) are slaine by Simeon & Leui her brothers. 27. The rest of Iacobs sonnes spoile the citie. 30. Iacob blameth them, fearing harme may come by this fact.

 

AND Dina the daughter of Lia went forth ^[1] to see the women of that countrie. ²Whom when Sichem had seen, the sonne of Hemor the Heuite, the Prince of that land, he was in loue with her: and he tooke her away, and lay with her, by force rauishing the virgin. ³And his soule was fast knit vnto her, and wheras she was sad, he comforted her with sweet wordes. ⁴And going to Hemor his father, he said: Take me this wench to be my wife. ⁵Which when Iacob had heard, his sonnes being absent and occupied in feeding of the cattle, he held his peace til they returned. ⁶And when Hemor Sichems father was come forth to speake vnto Iacob, ⁷behold his sonnes came out of the field; and hearing what had passed, they were passing wrath, because he had done a foule thing in Israel, and committed an vnlawful fact, in rauishing Iacobs daughter. ⁸Hemor therfore spake to them: The soule of my sonne Sichem is fastned to your daughter: Giue her vnto him to wife: ⁹and let vs contract mariages one

1. O Dina (saith S. Bernard) what need was there to see women of a strange countrie! Tract. de gradib. hummilitatis.