1 And Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she had given birth to Jacob, goes out to look on the daughters of the land, 2 and Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, saw her, and took her, and lay with her, and humbled her. 3 And his soul cleaved to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young person, and spoke to the heart of the young person. 4 And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Take for me this girl for a wife.” 5 And Jacob had heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah, and his sons were with his livestock in the field, and Jacob kept silent until their coming. 6 And Hamor, father of Shechem, goes out to Jacob to speak with him. 7 And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard, and the men grieved themselves, and it was very displeasing to them, for folly he had done against Israel, to lay with the daughter of Jacob—and so it is not done. 8 And Hamor spoke with them, saying, “Shechem, my son, his soul has cleaved to your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife, 9 and join in marriage with us. You give your daughters to us, and you take our daughters for yourselves, 10 and you stay with us, and the land is before you. Stay and trade in it, and have possessions in it.” 11 And Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find grace in your eyes, and that which you say to me, I give. 12 Multiply on me dowry and gift exceedingly, and I give as you say to me, and give to me the young person for a wife.” 13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, and they spoke (because he defiled their sister Dinah), 14 and said to them, “We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to one who has a foreskin, for it is a reproach to us. 15 Only for this we consent to you: if you are as we, to have every male of you circumcised, 16 then we have given our daughters to you, and we take your daughters for ourselves, and we have stayed with you, and have become one people. 17 And if you do not listen to us to be circumcised, then we have taken our daughter, and have gone.” 18 And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shechem, Hamor’s son. 19 And the young man did not delay to do the thing, for he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honorable above all the house of his father. 20 And Hamor came—his son Shechem also—to the gate of their city, and they spoke to the men of their city, saying, 21 “These men are peaceable with us. Then let them stay in the land, and trade in it. And the land, look, is wide before them. Their daughters let us take to ourselves for wives, and our daughters give to them. 22 Only for this do the men consent to us, to stay with us, to become one people, in every male of us being circumcised, as they are circumcised. 23 Their livestock, and their substance, and all their beasts—are they not ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will stay with us.” 24 And to Hamor, and to his son Shechem, did all those going out of the gate of his city listen, and every male was circumcised, all those going out of the gate of his city. 25 And it came to pass, on the third day, in their being pained, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took each his sword, and came in against the city confidently, and slay every male. 26 And Hamor, and his son Shechem, they had slain by the mouth of the sword, and they took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and go out. 27 Jacob’s sons had come in on the wounded, and they spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28 Their flock and their herd, and their donkeys, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, had they taken. 29 And all their wealth, and all their infants, and their wives they had taken captive, and they spoiled also all that was in the house. 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and to Levi, “You have troubled me, by causing me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanite, and among the Perizzite: and I am few in number, and they have been gathered against me, and have struck me, and I have been destroyed, I and my house.” 31 And they said, “Does he make our sister as a harlot?”