Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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The Rape of Dinah
1 One day Dinah, the daughter
of Jacob and Leah, went to
visit some of the Canaanite women.
2 When Shechem son of Hamor the
Hivite, who was chief of that region,
saw her, he took her and raped her.
3 But he found the girl so attractive
that he fell in love with her and tried
to win her affection. note
4 He told his father,
“I want you to get this girl for
me as my wife.”
5 Jacob learned that his daughter
had been disgraced, but because his
sons were out in the fields with his
livestock, he did nothing until they
came back.
6 Shechem's father Hamor
went out to talk with Jacob,
7 just as Jacob's sons were coming in
from the fields. When they heard
about it, they were shocked and furious
that Shechem had done such a
thing and had insulted the people of
Israel by raping Jacob's daughter.
8 Hamor said to him, “My son Shechem
has fallen in love with your
daughter; please let him marry her.
9 Let us make an agreement that
there will be intermarriage between
our people and yours.
10 Then you
may stay here in our country with
us; you may live anywhere you wish,
trade freely, and own property.”
11 Then Shechem said to Dinah's
father and brothers, “Do me this favor,
and I will give you whatever
you want.
12 Tell me what presents
you want, and set the payment for
the bride as high as you wish; I will
give you whatever you ask, if you
will only let me marry her.”
13 Because Shechem had disgraced
their sister Dinah, Jacob's sons answered
Shechem and his father Hamor
in a deceitful way.
14 They said
to him, “We cannot let our sister
marry a man who is not circumcised;
that would be a disgrace for
us.
15 We can agree only on the condition
that you become like us by
circumcising all your males.
16 Then
we will agree to intermarriage. We
will settle among you and become
-- --
one people with you.
17 But if you
will not accept our terms and be circumcised,
we will take her and
leave.”
18 These terms seemed fair to Hamor
and his son Shechem,
19 and the
young man lost no time in doing
what was suggested, because he was
in love with Jacob's daughter. He
was the most important member of
his family.
20 Hamor and his son Shechem
went to the meeting place at the city
gate and spoke to their fellow
townsmen:
21 “These men are
friendly; let them live in the land
with us and travel freely. The land is
large enough for them also. Let us
marry their daughters and give them
ours in marriage.
22 But these men
will agree to live among us and be
one people with us only on the condition
that we circumcise all our
males, as they are circumcised.
23 Won't all their livestock and
everything else they own be ours?
So let us agree that they can live
among us.”
24 All the citizens of the
city agreed with what Hamor and
Shechem proposed, and all the
males were circumcised.
25 Three days later, when the men
were still sore from their circumcision,
two of Jacob's sons, Simeon
and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, took
their swords, went into the city
without arousing suspicion, and
killed all the men,
26 including Hamor
and his son Shechem. Then they
took Dinah from Shechem's house
and left.
27 After the slaughter Jacob's
other sons looted the town to
take revenge for their sister's disgrace.
28 They took the flocks, the
cattle, the donkeys, and everything
else in the city and in the fields.
29 They took everything of value,
captured all the women and children,
and carried off everything in
the houses.
30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi,
“You have gotten me into trouble;
now the Canaanites, the Perizzites,
and everybody else in the land will
hate me. I do not have many men; if
they all band together against me
and attack me, our whole family will
be destroyed.”
31 But they answered, “We cannot
let our sister be treated like a common
whore.”
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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