Genesis - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 34

agree with us, that, like us, every male will give our daughters to you, and we will reside with you, and be one people. But if you will not listen to us, then we will take our sister and depart} And the idea was good in the eyes

the youth did not delay to do the of you should be circumcised, then we will take your daughters to us, and we of Shekhem the sou of Hamor ;·—so 35--2 GENESIS.

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$lpelil;e1n’s Glluirngz rm @irm}y. 34 But it happened that Dinah the IO II I2 16 18 daughter of Leah, whom she bore to ]acob, went out to visit the women of the country, and Shekhem, the son of Hemor, the Chief ofthe country, sew, and seized her and violated her, and disgraced her. But his soul was attached to Dinah the daughter of jacob, and he loved the girl, and spoke to the girl’s heart. So Shekhem spoke to Hamer his

Get me this girl for jacob, however, heard that he had

defiled his daughter Dinah, but his sons were at the fold in the fields, so jacob kept silence until their return. Then Hamor the father of Shekhem came to jacob to speak with him. But the sons of jacob returned from the field upon hearing it, and the men were grieved, and very angry at it, for he had done an outrage to Israel in violating the daughter of jacob,—·~which ought not to be done. But Hamer spoke to them saying,

‘ My son Shekhem is attached by his soul to your daughter, therefore give her to him for a wife, and you can give your girls to us, and we can give ours to you, to take for yourselves, and you can dwell with us and the land shall be before you. Reside, and T hen Shekhem said to her father and her Let me find favour in your eyes, and whatever you ask of me I will give it. Heap upon me a great dowry and settlement, and I will give whatever you say to me, only give me the girl for a wife} Then the sonsof jacob answered

Shekhem and Hamor his father he So We are unable to do sucha thing as to give our sister to an uncircumcised man, for that would be a reproach to us. Yet if you will thing, for he had an affection for the daughter of jacob; and he was the most honoured of all his father’s house. So Hamor and Shekhem his son went to the gate of their village, and addressed the men of their town 'I`hese men are peaceable with us, and they travel in it, and the country lies open to their hands before them. We would wish to take their daughters to us for wives, and give our daughters to them. r However the men will only unite with us in this way, to reside with us and to be one people, by our circumcising every male of us, as they are circumcised. Their herds and possessions and all they have—··—will they not be ours if we agree with them, and they reside All who satin the gate of the village

listened therefore to Hamor and Shekhem his son, and they circum- cised every male who came to the gate of the town. But on the third day when they were in pain, Simeon and Levi, the two sons of jacob, brothers of Dinah, each took his sword, and went into the village quietly and slew every male. They also slew Hamor and his son Shek~ hem with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah from the house of Shek· hem, and went away. Then the sons of jacob came on the booty, and plundered the town, which had deliled their sister. They took the sheep, the cattle and the asses, and the wealth in the village and the wealth in the field, and captured their youths and little children, and wives, and plundered all the furniture in the houses. But jacob said to Simeon You are a sorrow to me ;-·—you, have made me hateful to the inhabitants of the land, to the Cananites, and the Perizites, and I being few in number, they will out- number me and assail, and destroy me and my house} Ought they to use our sister as a harlot ? ’ 20 2I 22 26 28

GOD afterwards said to jacob 35 ‘ Arise; go to Beth-el and reside, and make an altar there to the GOD who appeared to you in your flight from your brother Esau} Qlncuh hzstrugs the Ebola at his ¥amilg smh §trinmts. So jacob said to his family,. and all 2 'I`hrow away 34