Genesis 34 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And Dinah, the daughter of Lĕ

² And Sheḵ

³ And his being clung to Dinah the daughter of Yaʽ

⁴ And Sheḵ

⁵ And Yaʽ

⁶ And Ḥ

⁷ And the sons of Yaʽ

⁸ But Ḥ

⁹ “And intermarry with us, give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves,

¹⁰ and dwell with us, and let the land be before you. Dwell and move about in it, and have possessions in it.”

¹¹ And Sheḵ

¹² “Ask of me a bride price and gift ever so high, and I give according to what you say to me, but give me the girl for a wife.”

¹³ But the sons of Yaʽ

¹⁴ And they said to them, “We are not able to do this matter, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us.

¹⁵ “Only on this condition would we agree to you: If you become as we are, to have every male of you circumcised,

¹⁶ then we shall give our daughters to you, and take your daughters to us. And we shall dwell with you, and shall become one people.

¹⁷ “But if you do not listen to us and be circumcised, we shall take our daughter and go.”

¹⁸ And their words pleased Ḥ

¹⁹ And the young man did not delay to do this because he delighted in Yaʽ

²⁰ And Ḥ

²¹ “These men are at peace with us, so let them dwell in the land and move about in it. And see, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters for us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

²² “Only on this condition would the men agree to dwell with us, to be one people: if every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.

²³ “Their herds and their possessions, and all their beasts, should they not be ours? Only let us agree with them, and let them dwell with us.”

²⁴ And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Ḥ

²⁵ And it came to be on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of the sons of Yaʽ

²⁶ And they killed Ḥ

²⁷ The sons of Yaʽ

²⁸ They took their flocks and their herds, and their donkeys, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field,

²⁹ and all their wealth. And all their little ones and their wives they took captive, and they plundered all that was in the houses.

³⁰ And Yaʽ

³¹ But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a whore?”