Genesis 34:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² and when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humbled her.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And when Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he seized her, lay with her, and humbled, defiled, and disgraced her.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her; and he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her.

Common English Bible

² When Shechem the son of the Hivite Hamor and the country’s prince saw her, he took her, slept with her, and humiliated her.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the leader of that land, had seen her, he fell in love with her. And so he seized her and slept with her, overwhelming the virgin by force.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And when Sichem, the son of Hemor the Hevite, the prince of that land, saw her, he was in love with her: and took her away, and lay with her, ravishing the virgin.

Genesis 34:2 Cross References

Genesis 10:17

the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

Genesis 20:2

And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

Genesis 33:19

And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.

Genesis 34:27

And the sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because their sister had been defiled;

Genesis 34:3

And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob; he loved the maiden and spoke tenderly to her.

Genesis 34:30

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose.

2 Samuel 11:2

It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking upon the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

2 Samuel 11:4

So David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.

2 Samuel 13:14

But he would not listen to her; and being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.

Job 31:1

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?

Job 31:9

“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;

Proverbs 13:20

He who walks with wise men becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Deuteronomy 21:14

Then, if you have no delight in her, you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her for money, you shall not treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.

Deuteronomy 22:24

then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.

Deuteronomy 22:29

then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her; he may not put her away all his days.

Joshua 9:7

But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?”

Judges 14:1

Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines.

Judges 9:28

And Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Did not the son of Jerubbaal and Zebul his officer serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem? Why then should we serve him?