Genesis 34 KJV
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And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. Death of Moses Dinah Jacob Leah
And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard [it:] and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done. Jacob
And make ye marriages with us, [and] give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give. Shechem
Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that [were] a reproach unto us:
But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we [be], that every male of you be circumcised;
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 circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he [was] more honourable than all the house of his father. Jacob
These 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 consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they [are] circumcised.
[Shall] not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs [be] ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. Jacob
They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which [was] in the city, and that which [was] in the field,
And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that [was] in the house.
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I [being] few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house. Perizzites Jacob Levi Simeon Canaan
And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?