Genesis 34

1Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.Cross-references: Gen 26:34 · Gen 27:46 · Gen 28:6 · Gen 30:13 · Gen 30:21 · Gen 46:15 · +3 more

2Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.Cross-references: Gen 6:2 · Gen 10:17 · Gen 20:2 · Gen 33:19 · Gen 39:6 · Deut 21:14 · +10 more

3His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.Cross-references: Ruth 1:14 · 1Sam 18:1 · 2Sam 19:7 · 2Chr 30:22 · Isa 40:2 · Hos 2:14

4Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”Cross-references: Gen 21:21 · Judg 14:2 · 2Sam 13:13

5Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.Cross-references: Gen 30:35 · Gen 37:13 · Lev 10:3 · 1Sam 10:27 · 1Sam 16:11 · 1Sam 17:15 · +4 more

6Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.

7The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing that ought not to be done.Cross-references: Gen 20:9 · Gen 46:7 · Ex 19:5 · Lev 4:2 · Lev 4:13 · Lev 4:27 · +17 more

8Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.Cross-references: Gen 34:3 · 1Ki 11:2 · Ps 63:1 · Ps 84:2 · Ps 119:20

9Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.Cross-references: Gen 6:2 · Gen 19:14 · Gen 24:3 · Gen 26:34 · Gen 27:46 · Deut 7:3

10You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”Cross-references: Gen 13:9 · Gen 20:15 · Gen 34:21 · Gen 42:34 · Gen 47:27

11Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.Cross-references: Gen 18:3 · Gen 33:15

12Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”Cross-references: Gen 24:53 · Gen 29:18 · Gen 31:41 · Ex 22:16 · Deut 22:28 · 1Sam 18:25 · +3 more

13The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,Cross-references: Gen 25:27 · Judg 15:3 · 2Sam 13:23 · Job 13:4 · Job 13:7 · Ps 12:2 · +9 more

14and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.Cross-references: Gen 17:11 · Gen 17:14 · Josh 5:2 · 1Sam 14:6 · 1Sam 17:26 · 1Sam 17:36 · +7 more

15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,Cross-references: Gal 4:12

16then 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.

17But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”

18Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.

19The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.Cross-references: Gen 29:20 · Gen 41:20 · Num 22:15 · 1Sam 22:14 · 2Ki 5:1 · 1Chr 4:9 · +7 more

20Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,Cross-references: Gen 22:17 · Gen 23:10 · Deut 17:5 · Ruth 4:1 · 2Sam 15:2 · Job 29:7 · +5 more

21“These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters.

22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.

23Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”Cross-references: Prov 1:12 · Prov 23:4 · Prov 28:20 · John 2:16 · John 6:26 · Acts 19:24 · +1 more

24All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.Cross-references: Gen 17:23 · Gen 23:10 · Gen 23:18 · Isa 1:10 · Matt 7:6 · Rom 2:28 · +1 more

25On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.Cross-references: Gen 29:33 · Gen 49:5 · Num 31:7 · Num 31:17 · Josh 5:6 · Josh 5:8 · +3 more

26They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.Cross-references: Deut 32:42 · 2Sam 2:26 · Isa 31:8

27Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.Cross-references: Gen 34:2 · Gen 34:31 · Ex 2:14 · Josh 7:1 · Josh 7:13 · Josh 7:21 · +3 more

28They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,Cross-references: Num 31:17 · Deut 8:17 · Job 1:15 · Job 20:5

29and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.

30Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 12:12 · Gen 13:7 · Gen 28:13 · Gen 46:27 · Gen 49:5 · +19 more

31They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”Cross-references: Gen 34:13 · Gen 49:7 · Prov 6:34