Verse 8
Genesis 34:8
Free Bible Version
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Hamor told them, “My son Shechem is very much in love with your daughter and your sister Dinah. Please allow him to marry her.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יְדַבֵּ֥ר חֲמ֖וֹר אִתָּ֣/ם לֵ/אמֹ֑ר שְׁכֶ֣ם בְּנִ֗/י חָֽשְׁקָ֤ה נַפְשׁ/וֹ֙ בְּ/בִתְּ/כֶ֔ם תְּנ֨וּ נָ֥א אֹתָ֛/הּ ל֖/וֹ לְ/אִשָּֽׁה
English Translation
And the donkey spoke to them, saying, "Shechem the son of Hamor has desired your daughter; please give her to him as a wife."
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Chapter 34 Context
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Dinah, Jacob and Leah's daughter, went to visit some of the local women.
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Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her. He grabbed hold of her and raped...
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However, then he fell deeply in love with Dinah and tried to get her to love him too.
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He went and asked his father, “Get this young girl for me so I can marry her.”
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Jacob found out that Shechem had violated his daughter Dinah, but as his sons were away looking afte...
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In the meantime Hamor, Shechem's father, arrived to talk with Jacob.
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When Jacob's sons returned from the fields they were very upset when they heard the news and became...
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Hamor told them, “My son Shechem is very much in love with your daughter and your sister Dinah. Plea...
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In fact we can have more marriages—you can give us your daughters and you can have our daughters.
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You can live among us and settle down wherever you like. You can go where you want and buy land for...
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Then Shechem himself spoke up, and said to Dinah's father and brothers, “Please accept me and my pro...
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You can set the bride price as high as you like, and I'll pay it along with all the gifts I'll give....
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They told them, “We can't do this! We can't allow our sister to marry a man who's not circumcised. T...
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We will only agree to it with this condition: all of you must be circumcised like us.
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Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters, and we will live among you and become o...
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But if you don't agree with us that you should be circumcised, then we'll take our sister and leave....
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The young man Shechem didn't waste any time in arranging this because he was infatuated with Jacob's...
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“These men are our friends,” they told them. “Let's have them live here in our country and allow the...
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But they will only agree to this on one condition: they will only join us and become one family if e...
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If that happens, won't all their livestock and property—all their animals—end up belonging to us? We...
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Three days later while they were still suffering pain, Simeon and Levi, two of Jacob's sons and Dina...
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They killed Hamor and Shechem with their swords, took Dinah from Shechem's house, and left.
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Jacob's other sons arrived, robbed the dead bodies, and looted the town where their sister had been...
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They took their sheep, goats, cattle, and donkeys. They took whatever was in the town, and in the fi...
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all their possessions. They captured all their women and children, and plundered everything in their...
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But Jacob criticized Simeon and Levi, telling them, “You've just caused me a lot of trouble! You've...
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But they replied, “Should we have let him treat our sister like a prostitute?”
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