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Iacob. with an other: giue vs your daughters, and take you our daughters. And dwel with vs: the land is at your commandement, tille, occupie, and possesse it. Yea and Sichem also said to her father and to her brethren: Let me finde grace in your sight: and what soeuer you shal appoint I wil giue: raise the dowrie, and require guifts, and I shal gladly giue what you shal demand: onely giue me this wench to wife. Iacobs sonnes answered Sichem & his father in guile, being wrath for the deflouring of their sister: We can not doe that which you demand, nor giue our sister to an vncircumcised person; which with vs is an vnlawful & abhominable thing. But in this order we may be confederate, if you wil be like to vs, and al the man sex among you be circumcised: then wil we giue and take mutually your daughters, and ours: and we wil dwel with you, and wil be one people: but if you wil not be circumcised, we wil take our daughter, and depart. The offer pleased Hemor, and Sichem his sonne: neither did the yong man make delay, but forthwith fulfilled that which was demanded: for he loued the wench exceedingly, and he was the greatest man in al his fathers house. And going into the gate of the citie, they spake to the people: These men are men of peace, and are willing to dwel with vs: let them occupie in the land, and til it, which being large and wide doth lacke men to till it: their daughters we shal take to wife, and ours we wil giue to them. One thing there is for the which so great a good is differred: If we circumcise our men sex, following the rite of the nation. And their substance, and cattle, and al things that they possesse, shal be ours: only in this let vs condescend, and dwelling together we shal make one people. And they al assented, and circumcised al the man sex. And behold the third day, when the griefe of the wounds is most paineful: Iacobs two sonnes Simeon and Leui, the brothers of Dina, taking their swords, entred into the citie boldly: and killing al the man sex, murdred withal Hemor and Sichem, taking away Dina their sister out of Sichems house. When they were gone forth, the other sonnes of Iacob ranne in vpon them that were slaine, and spoiled the citie in reuenge of the rape. And wasting al things that were in their houses and fieldes, their sheep and heards, and asses, their little ones also, and their wiues they led away captiue. Which things when they had boldly atcheiued, Iacob said to Simeon and Leui: You haue troubled me, and made me odious to the Chananites, and Pherezites the inhabiters of this land. We are few: they being gathered together wil strike me; and I and my house shal be destroyed. They answered: What? should they abuse our sister as a strumpet? Rh