Genesis 34:4

Plain English Version

Then Shekem talked to his father Hamor and said, “I want to marry that woman. Ask her father to give her to me, so that she can be my wife.”

Cross References

Genesis 34:3

Shekem fell in love with Dinah, and he thought that she was wonderful. So he talked to her and tried to get her to love him too.

Genesis 34:5

At that time, Jacob was in his camp, and Jacob’s sons were out in the grass lands looking after Jacob’s animals. Then somebody went and told Jacob that Shekem did that bad thing to his daughter Dinah. But Jacob didn’t say anything, because he wanted to wait for his sons to come home.