Genesis Chapter 34
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Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
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These twenty years have I been in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
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Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
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And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children whom they have borne?
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And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
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And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
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And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a heap: and they did eat there by the heap.
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And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
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And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:
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and Mizpah, for he said, Jehovah watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
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If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
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And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set betwixt me and thee.
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This heap be witness, and the pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
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The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the Fear of his father Isaac.
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And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mountain.
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And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.
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And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
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And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
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And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
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And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye say unto my lord Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now:
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and I have oxen, and asses,
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and flocks, and men-servants, and maid-servants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in thy sight.
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And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
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Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
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and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape.
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And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good:
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I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two companies.
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Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, the mother with the children.
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And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
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And he lodged there that night, and took of that which he had with him a present for Esau his brother:
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two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
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And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
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And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her.
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And his soul fastened on Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the maiden, and spoke consolingly to the maiden.
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And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Take me this girl as wife.
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And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; but his sons were with his cattle in the fields, and Jacob said nothing until they came.
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And Hamor the father of Shechem came out to Jacob, to speak to him.
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And the sons of Jacob came from the fields when they heard [it]; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had wrought what was disgraceful in Israel, in lying with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done.
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And Hamor spoke to them, saying, My son Shechem's soul cleaves to your daughter: I pray you, give her to him as wife.
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And make marriages with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you.
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And dwell with us, and the land shall be before you: dwell and trade in it, and get yourselves possessions in it.
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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.
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Impose on me very much as dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me; but give me the maiden as wife.
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And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and spoke — because he had defiled Dinah their sister —
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and said to them, We cannot do this, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that [were] a reproach to us.
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But only in this will we consent to you, if ye will be as we, that every male of you be circumcised;
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then will we give our daughters to you, and take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and be one people.
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But if ye do not hearken to us, to be circumcised, then will we take our daughter and go away.
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And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.
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And the youth did not delay to do this, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter. And he was honourable above all in the house of his father.
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And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke to the men of their city, saying,
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These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade in it. And the land — behold, it is of wide extent before them. We will take their daughters as wives, and give them our daughters.
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But only in this will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to be one people — if every male among us be circumcised, just as they are circumcised.
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Their cattle, and their possessions, and every beast of theirs, shall they not be ours? only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.
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And all that went out at the gate of his city hearkened to Hamor and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised — all that went out at the gate of his city.
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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 his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
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And Hamor and Shechem his son they slew with the edge of the sword; and took Dinah out of Shechem's house; and went out.
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The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
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Their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and what [was] in the city, and what [was] in the field they took;
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and all their goods, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and plundered them, and all that was in the houses.
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And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, in that ye make me odious among the inhabitants of the land — among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and I am few men in number, and they will gather themselves against me and smite me, and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
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And they said, Should people deal with our sister as with a harlot?
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And Dina, the daughter of Lea, whom she bore to Jacob, went forth to observe the daughters of the inhabitants.
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And Sychem the son of Emmor the Evite, the ruler of the land, saw her, and took her and lay with her, and humbled her.
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And he was attached to the soul of Dina the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and he spoke kindly to the damsel.
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Sychem spoke to Emmor his father, saying, Take for me this damsel to wife.
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And Jacob heard that the son of Emmor had defiled Dina his daughter (now his sons were with his cattle in the plain). And Jacob was silent until they came.
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And Emmor the father of Sychem went forth to Jacob, to speak to him.
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And the sons of Jacob came from the plain; and when they heard, the men were deeply pained, and it was very grievous to them, because [the man] wrought folly in Israel, having lain with the daughter of Jacob, and so it must not be.
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And Emmor spoke to them, saying, Sychem my son has chosen in his heart your daughter; give her therefore to him for a wife,
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and intermarry with us. Give us your daughters, and take our daughters for your sons.
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And dwell in the midst of us; and, behold, the land is spacious before you, dwell in it, and trade, and get possessions in it.
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And Sychem said to her father and to her brothers, I would find grace before you, and we will give whatever ye shall name.
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Multiply [your demand of] dowry very much, and I will give accordingly as ye shall say to me, only ye shall give me this damsel for a wife.
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And the sons of Jacob answered to Sychem and Emmor his father craftily, and spoke to them, because they had defiled Dina their sister.
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And Symeon and Levi, the brothers of Dina, said to them, We shall not be able to do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for it is a reproach to us.
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Only on these terms will we conform to you, and dwell among you, if ye also will be as we are, in that every male of you be circumcised.
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And we will give our daughters to you, and we will take of your daughters for wives to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will be as one race.
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But if ye will not hearken to us to be circumcised, we will take our daughter and depart.
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And the words pleased Emmor, and Sychem the son of Emmor.
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And the young man delayed not to do this thing, for he was much attached to Jacob's daughter, and he was the most honourable of all in his father's house.
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And Emmor and Sychem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke to the men of their city, saying,
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These men are peaceable, let them dwell with us upon the land, and let them trade in it, and behold the land is extensive before them; we will take their daughters to us for wives, and we will give them our daughters.
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Only on these terms will the men conform to us to dwell with us so as to be one people, if every male of us be circumcised, as they also are circumcised.
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And shall not their cattle and their herds, and their possessions, be ours? only in this let us conform to them, and they will dwell with us.
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And all that went in at the gate of their city hearkened to Emmor and Sychem his son, and they were circumcised in the flesh of their foreskin every male.
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And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, the two sons of Jacob, Symeon and Levi, Dina's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city securely, and slew every male.
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And they slew Emmor and Sychem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dina out of the house of Sychem, and went forth.
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But the sons of Jacob came upon the wounded, and ravaged the city wherein they had defiled Dina their sister.
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And their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses they took, and all things whatsoever were in the city, and whatsoever were in the plain.
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And they took captive all the persons of them, and all their store, and their wives, and plundered both whatever things there were in the city, and whatever things there were in the houses.
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And Jacob said to Symeon and Levi, Ye have made me hateful so that I should be evil to all the inhabitants of the land, both among the Chananites and the Pherezites, and I am few in number; they will gather themselves against me and cut me in pieces, and I shall be utterly destroyed, and my house.
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And they said, Nay, but shall they treat our sister as an harlot?
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Egressa est autem Dina filia Liæ ut videret mulieres regionis illius.
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Quam cum vidisset Sichem filius Hemor Hevæi, princeps terræ illius, adamavit eam: et rapuit, et dormivit cum illa, vi opprimens virginem.
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Et conglutinata est anima eius cum ea, tristemque delinivit blanditiis.
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Et pergens ad Hemor patrem suum, Accipe, inquit, mihi puellam hanc coniugem.
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Quod cum audisset Iacob, absentibus filiis, et in pastu pecorum occupatis, siluit donec redirent.
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Egresso autem Hemor patre Sichem ut loqueretur ad Iacob,
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ecce filii eius veniebant de agro: auditoque quod acciderat, irati sunt valde, eo quod fœdam rem operatus esset in Israel et, violata filia Iacob, rem illicitam perpetrasset.
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Locutus est itaque Hemor ad eos: Sichem filii mei adhæsit anima filiæ vestræ: date eam illi uxorem:
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et iungamus vicissim connubia: filias vestras tradite nobis, et filias nostras accipite.
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Et habitate nobiscum: terra in potestate vestra est, exercete, negotiamini, et possidete eam.
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Sed et Sichem ad patrem et ad fratres eius ait: Inveniam gratiam coram vobis: et quæcumque statueritis, dabo:
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augete dotem, et munera postulate, et libenter tribuam quod petieritis: tantum date mihi puellam hanc uxorem.
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Responderunt filii Iacob Sichem et patri eius in dolo, sævientes ob stuprum sororis:
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Non possumus facere quod petitis, nec dare sororem nostram homini incircumciso: quod illicitum et nefarium est apud nos.
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Sed in hoc valebimus fœderari, si volueritis esse similes nostri, et circumcidatur in vobis omne masculini sexus;
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tunc dabimus et accipiemus mutuo filias vestras, ac nostras: et habitabimus vobiscum, erimusque unus populus:
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si autem circumcidi nolueritis, tollemus filiam nostram, et recedemus.
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Placuit oblatio eorum Hemor, et Sichem filio eius:
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nec distulit adolescens quin statim quod petebatur expleret: amabat enim puellam valde, et ipse erat inclytus in omni domo patris sui.
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Ingressique portam urbis, locuti sunt ad populum:
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Viri isti pacifici sunt, et volunt habitare nobiscum: negotientur in terra, et exerceant eam, quæ spatiosa et lata cultoribus indiget: filias eorum accipiemus uxores, et nostras illis dabimus.
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Unum est quo differtur tantum bonum: Si circumcidamus masculos nostros, ritum gentis imitantes.
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Et substantia eorum, et pecora, et cuncta quæ possident, nostra erunt: tantum in hoc acquiescamus, et habitantes simul, unum efficiemus populum.
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Assensique sunt omnes, circumcisis cunctis maribus.
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Et ecce, die tertio quando gravissimus vulnerum dolor est: arreptis, duo filii Iacob, Simeon et Levi fratres Dinæ, gladiis, ingressi sunt urbem confidenter: interfectisque omnibus masculis,
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Hemor et Sichem pariter necaverunt, tollentes Dinam de domo Sichem sororem suam.
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Quibus egressis, irruerunt super occisos ceteri filii Iacob: et depopulati sunt urbem in ultionem stupri.
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Oves eorum, et armenta, et asinos, cunctaque vastantes quæ in domibus et in agris erant,
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parvulos quoque eorum et uxores duxerunt captivas.
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Quibus patratis audacter, Iacob dixit ad Simeon et Levi: Turbastis me, et odiosum fecistis me Chananæis, et Pherezæis habitatoribus terræ huius. nos pauci sumus: illi congregati percutient me, et delebor ego, et domus mea.
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Responderunt: Numquid ut scorto abuti debuere sorore nostra?
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Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
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Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
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His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
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Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”
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Now 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.
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Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.
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The 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.
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Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
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Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
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You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”
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Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
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Ask 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.”
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The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
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and 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.
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Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,
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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.
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But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”
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Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.
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The 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.
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Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
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“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.
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Only 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.
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Won’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.”
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All 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.
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On 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.
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They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
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Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
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They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,
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and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.
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Jacob 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.”
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They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”
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And Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she hath borne to Jacob, goeth out to look on the daughters of the land,
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and Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, seeth her, and taketh her, and lieth with her, and humbleth her;
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and his soul cleaveth to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and he loveth the young person, and speaketh unto the heart of the young person.
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And Shechem speaketh unto Hamor his father, saying, `Take for me this damsel for a wife.'
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And Jacob hath heard that he hath defiled Dinah his daughter, and his sons were with his cattle in the field, and Jacob kept silent till their coming.
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And Hamor, father of Shechem, goeth out unto Jacob to speak with him;
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and the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard, and the men grieve themselves, and it <FI>is<Fi> very displeasing to them, for folly he hath done against Israel, to lie with the daughter of Jacob--and so it is not done.
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And Hamor speaketh with them, saying, `Shechem, my son, his soul hath cleaved to your daughter; give her, I pray you, to him for a wife,
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and join ye in marriage with us; your daughters ye give to us, and our daughters ye take to yourselves,
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and with us ye dwell, and the land is before you; dwell ye and trade <FI>in<Fi> it, and have possessions in it.'
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And Shechem saith unto her father, and unto her brethren, `Let me find grace in your eyes, and that which ye say unto me, I give;
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multiply on me exceedingly dowry and gift, and I give as ye say unto me, and give to me the young person for a wife.'
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And the sons of Jacob answer Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and they speak (because he defiled Dinah their sister),
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and say unto them, `We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to one who hath a foreskin: for it <FI>is<Fi> a reproach to us.
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`Only for this we consent to you; if ye be as we, to have every male of you circumcised,
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then we have given our daughters to you, and your daughters we take to ourselves, and we have dwelt with you, and have become one people;
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and if ye hearken not unto us to be circumcised, then we have taken our daughter, and have gone.'
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And their words are good in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shechem, Hamor's son;
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and the young man delayed not to do the thing, for he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he is honourable above all the house of his father.
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And Hamor cometh--Shechem his son also--unto the gate of their city, and they speak unto the men of their city, saying,
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`These men are peaceable with us; then let them dwell in the land, and trade <FI>in<Fi> it; and the land, lo, <FI>is<Fi> wide before them; their daughters let us take to ourselves for wives, and our daughters give to them.
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`Only for this do the men consent to us, to dwell with us, to become one people, in every male of us being circumcised, as they are circumcised;
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their cattle, and their substance, and all their beasts--are they not ours? only let us consent to them, and they dwell with us.'
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And unto Hamor, and unto Shechem his son, hearken do all those going out of the gate of his city, and every male is circumcised, all those going out of the gate of his city.
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And it cometh to pass, on the third day, in their being pained, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, take each his sword, and come in against the city confidently, and slay every male;
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and Hamor, and Shechem his son, they have slain by the mouth of the sword, and they take Dinah out of Shechem's house, and go out.
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Jacob's sons have come in upon the wounded, and they spoil the city, because they had defiled their sister;
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their flock and their herd, and their asses, and that which <FI>is<Fi> in the city, and that which <FI>is<Fi> in the field, have they taken;
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and all their wealth, and all their infants, and their wives they have taken captive, and they spoil also all that <FI>is<Fi> in the house.
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And Jacob saith unto Simeon and unto Levi, `Ye have troubled me, by causing me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanite, and among the Perizzite: and I <FI>am<Fi> few in number, and they have been gathered against me, and have smitten me, and I have been destroyed, I and my house.'
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And they say, `As a harlot doth he make our sister?'
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A long, long time ago, there was nothing at all - no earth, no sky, no animals, no people. It was all dark and empty. But God was there! God is so powerful that He can make anything just by speaking. So God said "Let there be light!" and BOOM! There was light everywhere! God saw that the light was beautiful and good. He called the light "day" and the darkness "night." This was the very first day when God started making our wonderful world!
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Before anything existed - no planets, stars, or life - God decided to create the universe. The earth started out as a dark, empty place covered with water. But God's Spirit was there, ready to bring order and beauty to everything. When God spoke and said "Let there be light," light immediately appeared because God's words have incredible power. God looked at the light and was pleased with what He had made. He organized time by separating light (day) from darkness (night), creating the first 24-hour period. This shows us that God is organized and purposeful in everything He does.
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Genesis 1:1-5 establishes fundamental theological truths about God and creation. The Hebrew word "bara" (created) indicates creation from nothing (ex nihilo), demonstrating God's absolute sovereignty and power. The phrase "without form and void" (tohu wa-bohu) describes a state of chaos that God transforms into order. The Spirit of God "hovering" or "brooding" over the waters suggests active, caring involvement in creation. The creation of light before the sun (created on day 4) indicates that God Himself is the ultimate source of light and energy. The establishment of day and night creates the framework of time, showing that God operates within orderly patterns while transcending them. This passage refutes both atheistic materialism and pantheism, establishing that God is both transcendent (separate from creation) and immanent (actively involved in it).