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Dinah is ravihed by Shechem.

So Eau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

¶ And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an houe, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called ‖ Succoth.

¶ And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of ‖ Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city.

And he bought a parcel of a field, where he h0ad pread his tent, at the hand of the children of ‖ Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred ‖ pieces of money.

And he erected there an altar, and called it ‖ El-elohe-Irael.

1 Dinah is ravihed by Shechem. 4 He ueth to marry her. 13 The ons of Jacob offer the condition of circumciion to the Shechemites. 20 Hamor and Shechem peruade them to accept it. 25 The ons of Jacob taking advantage thereof lay them and poil their city. 30 Jacob reproveth Simeon and Levi.

Dinah the daughter of Leah, which he bare unto Jacob, went out to ee the daughters of the land.

And when Shechem the on of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, aw her, he took her, and lay with her, and † defiled her.

And his oul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damel, and pake † kindly unto the damel.

¶ And Shechem pake unto his father Hamor, aying, Get me this damel to wife.

And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his ons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.

And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

And the ons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, becaue he had wrought folly in Irael in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.

And Hamor communed with them, aying, The oul of my on Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.

And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

And ye hall dwell with us: and the land hall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you poeions therein.

And Shechem aid unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye hall ay unto me I will give.

Ak me never o much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye hall ay unto me: but give me the damel to wife.

¶ And the ons of Jacob anwered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and aid, becaue he had defiled Dinah their iter:

And they aid unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our iter to one that is uncircumcied; for that were a reproach unto us:

But in this will we conent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcied;

Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcied; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

And their words pleaed Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's on.

And the young man deferred not to do the thing, becaue he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the houe of his father.

¶ And Hamor and Shechem his on came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, aying,

Thee men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; 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.

Only herein will the men conent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcied, as they are circumcied.

Shall not their cattle and their ubtance and every beat of their's be ours? only let us conent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his on hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcied, all that went out of the gate of his city.

¶ And it came to pas on the third day, when they were ore, that two of the ons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his word, and came upon the city boldly, and lew all the males.

And they lew Hamor and Shechem