therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou hast been pleased with me.
11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it . [1]
12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.
13 And he said to him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on slowly, according as the cattle that go before me and the children are able to endure, until I come to my lord to Seir. [2]
15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the people that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord. [3] [4]
16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built for himself an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. [5]
18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city. [6]
19 And he bought the piece of land, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money. [7] [8]
20 And he built there an altar, and called it Elelohe-Israel. [9]
CHAP. 34.
1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. [10]
3 And his soul cleaved to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke kindly to the damsel. [11]
4 And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel for a wife.
5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they had come.
6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.
7 And the sons of Jacob came from the field when they heard it : and the men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
8 And Hamor spoke with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her to him for a wife.
9 And make ye marriages with us, give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you.
10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye in it, and get you possessions in it.
11 And Shechem said to her father and to her brethren, Let me find favour in your eyes, and what ye shall say to me I will give.
12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me: but give me the damsel for a wife.
13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
14 And they said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that would be a reproach to us:
15 But in this will we consent to you: If ye will be as we are, that every male of you shall be circumcised;
16 Then will we give our daughters to 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 to 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 more honourable than all the house of his father.
20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke with the men of their city, saying,
21 These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade in it; 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 on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us shall be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
23 Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.
24 And to Hamor and to Shechem his son hearkened all that 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, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and
- ↑ enough: Heb. all things
- ↑ according...: Heb. according to the foot of the work, etc., and according to the foot of the children
- ↑ leave: Heb. set, or, place
- ↑ What...: Heb. Wherefore is this?
- ↑ Succoth: that is, Booths
- ↑ Shechem: Gr. Sychem
- ↑ Hamor: Gr. Emmor
- ↑ pieces...: or, lambs
- ↑ Elelohe-Israel: that is God the God of Israel
- ↑ defiled...: Heb. humbled her
- ↑ kindly...: Heb. to the heart of the damsel
