Dual Panel1One day Dinah, the daughter Leah had given Jacob, went to visit some of the women in that country.
2Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was chieftain there, saw her and raped her.
3Then he felt a strong attraction to Dinah, Jacob's daughter, fell in love with her and wooed her.
4Shechem went to his father Hamor, "Get me this girl for my wife."
5Jacob heard that Shechem had raped his daughter Dinah, but his sons were out in the fields with the livestock so he didn't say anything until they got home.
6Hamor, Shechem's father, went to Jacob to work out marriage arrangements.
7Meanwhile Jacob's sons on their way back from the fields heard what had happened. They were outraged, explosive with anger. Shechem's rape of Jacob's daughter was intolerable in Israel and not to be put up with.
8Hamor spoke with Jacob and his sons, "My son Shechem is head over heels in love with your daughter--give her to him as his wife.
9Intermarry with us. Give your daughters to us and we'll give our daughters to you.
10Live together with us as one family. Settle down among us and make yourselves at home. Prosper among us."
11Shechem then spoke for himself, addressing Dinah's father and brothers: "Please, say yes. I'll pay anything.
12Set the bridal price as high as you will--the sky's the limit! Only give me this girl for my wife."
13Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father with cunning. Their sister, after all, had been raped.
14They said, "This is impossible. We could never give our sister to a man who was uncircumcised. Why, we'd be disgraced.
15The only condition on which we can talk business is if all your men become circumcised like us.
16Then we will freely exchange daughters in marriage and make ourselves at home among you and become one big, happy family.
17But if this is not an acceptable condition, we will take our sister and leave."
18That seemed fair enough to Hamor and his son Shechem.
19The young man was so smitten with Jacob's daughter that he proceeded to do what had been asked. He was also the most admired son in his father's family.
20So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the public square and spoke to the town council:
21"These men like us; they are our friends. Let them settle down here and make themselves at home; there's plenty of room in the country for them. And, just think, we can even exchange our daughters in marriage.
22But these men will only accept our invitation to live with us and become one big family on one condition, that all our males become circumcised just as they themselves are.
23This is a very good deal for us--these people are very wealthy with great herds of livestock and we're going to get our hands on it. So let's do what they ask and have them settle down with us."
24Everyone who was anyone in the city agreed with Hamor and his son, Shechem; every male was circumcised.
25Three days after the circumcision, while all the men were still very sore, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each with his sword in hand, walked into the city as if they owned the place and murdered every man there.
26They also killed Hamor and his son Shechem, rescued Dinah from Shechem's house, and left.
27When the rest of Jacob's sons came on the scene of slaughter, they looted the entire city in retaliation for Dinah's rape.
28Flocks, herds, donkeys, belongings--everything, whether in the city or the fields--they took.
29And then they took all the wives and children captive and ransacked their homes for anything valuable.
30Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You've made my name stink to high heaven among the people here, these Canaanites and Perizzites. If they decided to gang up on us and attack, as few as we are we wouldn't stand a chance; they'd wipe me and my people right off the map."
31They said, "Nobody is going to treat our sister like a whore and get by with it."