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with an other: giue vs your daughters, and take you our daughters. ¹⁰And dwel with vs: the land is at your commandement, tille, occupie, and possesse it. ¹¹Yea and Sichem also said to her father and to her brethren: Let me finde grace in your sight: and what soeuer you shal appoint I wil giue: ¹²raise the dowrie, and require guifts, and I shal gladly giue what you shal demand: onely giue me this wench to wife. ¹³Iacobs sonnes answered Sichem & his father ^[1] in guile, being wrath for the deflouring of their sister: ¹⁴We can not doe that which you demand, nor giue our sister to an vncircumcised person; which with vs is an vnlawful & abhominable thing. ¹⁵But in this order we may be confederate, if you wil be like to vs, and al the man sex among you be circumcised: ¹⁶then wil we giue and take mutually your daughters, and ours: and we wil dwel with you, and wil be one people: ¹⁷but if you wil not be circumcised, we wil take our daughter, and depart. ¹⁸The offer pleased Hemor, and Sichem his sonne: ¹⁹neither did the yong man make delay, but forthwith fulfilled that which was demanded: for he loued the wench exceedingly, and he was the greatest man in al his fathers house. ²⁰And going into the gate of the citie, they spake to the people: ²¹These men are men of peace, and are willing to dwel with vs: let them occupie in the land, and til it, which being large and wide doth lacke men to till it: their daughters we shal take to wife, and ours we wil giue to them. ²²One thing there is for the which so great a good is differred: If we circumcise our men sex, following the rite of the nation. ²³And their substance, and cattle, and al things that they possesse, shal be ours: only in this let vs condescend, and dwelling together we shal make one people. ²⁴And they al assented, and circumcised al the man sex. ²⁵And behold the third day, when the griefe of the wounds is most paineful: Iacobs two sonnes Simeon and Leui, the brothers of Dina, taking their swords, entred into the citie boldly: and killing al the man sex, ²⁶murdred withal Hemor and Sichem, taking away Dina their sister out of Sichems house. ²⁷When they were gone forth, the other sonnes of Iacob ranne in vpon them that were slaine, and spoiled the citie in reuenge of the rape. ²⁸And wasting al things that were in their houses and fieldes, their sheep and heards, and asses, ²⁹their little ones also, and their wiues they led away captiue. ³⁰Which things when they had boldly atcheiued, Iacob said to Simeon and Leui: You haue troubled me, and made me odious to the Chananites, and Pherezites the inhabiters of this land. We are few: they being gathered together wil strike me; and I and my house shal be destroyed. ³¹They answered: What? should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?

1. They offended by falsly pretending religion, and by excesse in reuenge, & therfore are reproued by theyr father. v. 30 & cap. 49. v. 5. Otherwise their zeale was iust to punish so foule a fault. Iudith. 9.