Génesis 34
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Rapto y violación de Dina
34 En cierta ocasión, Dina, la hija que Jacob tuvo con Lea, salió a visitar a las mujeres del lugar. 2 Cuando la vio Siquén, que era hijo de Jamor el heveo, jefe del lugar, la agarró por la fuerza, se acostó con ella y la violó. 3 Pero luego se enamoró de ella y trató de ganarse su afecto. 4 Entonces le dijo a su padre: «Consígueme a esta muchacha para que sea mi esposa».
5 Jacob se enteró de que Siquén había violado a su hija Dina, pero, como sus hijos estaban en el campo cuidando el ganado, no dijo nada hasta que ellos regresaron. 6 Mientras tanto Jamor, el padre de Siquén, salió en busca de Jacob para hablar con él. 7 Cuando los hijos de Jacob volvieron del campo y se enteraron de lo sucedido, quedaron muy dolidos y, a la vez, llenos de ira. Siquén había cometido una ofensa muy grande contra Israel al abusar de su hija; era algo que nunca debió haber hecho. 8 Pero Jamor les dijo:
―Mi hijo Siquén está enamorado de vuestra hermana. Por favor, permitid que ella se case con él. 9 Haceos parientes nuestros. Intercambiemos nuestras hijas en casamiento. 10 Así vosotros podréis vivir entre nosotros y el país quedará a vuestra disposición para que lo habitéis, hagáis negocios[a] y adquiráis terrenos.
11 Siquén, por su parte, les dijo al padre y a los hermanos de Dina:
―Si vosotros me halláis digno de vuestro favor, yo os daré lo que me pidáis. 12 Podéis pedirme cuanta dote queráis, y exigirme muchos regalos, pero permitid que la muchacha se case conmigo.
13 Sin embargo, por el hecho de que su hermana Dina había sido deshonrada, los hijos de Jacob les respondieron con engaños a Siquén y a su padre Jamor.
14 ―Nosotros no podemos hacer algo así —les explicaron—. Sería una vergüenza para todos nosotros entregarle nuestra hermana a un hombre que no está circuncidado. 15 Solo aceptaremos con esta condición: que todos los varones entre vosotros se circunciden para que seáis como nosotros. 16 Entonces sí intercambiaremos nuestras hijas con las vuestras en casamiento, y viviremos entre vosotros y formaremos un solo pueblo. 17 Pero, si no aceptáis nuestra condición de circuncidaros, nos llevaremos a nuestra hermana[b] y nos iremos de aquí.
18 Jamor y Siquén estuvieron de acuerdo con la propuesta; 19 y tan enamorado estaba Siquén de la hija de Jacob que no demoró en circuncidarse.
Como Siquén era el hombre más respetado en la familia, 20 su padre Jamor lo acompañó hasta la entrada de la ciudad, y allí hablaron con todos sus conciudadanos. Les dijeron:
21 ―Estos hombres se han portado como amigos. Dejad que se establezcan en nuestro país y que lleven a cabo sus negocios aquí, ya que hay suficiente espacio para ellos. Además, nosotros nos podremos casar con sus hijas, y ellos con las nuestras. 22 Pero ellos aceptan quedarse entre nosotros y formar un solo pueblo, con una sola condición: que todos nuestros varones se circunciden, como hacen ellos. 23 Aceptemos su condición, para que se queden a vivir entre nosotros. De esta manera su ganado, sus propiedades y todos sus animales serán nuestros.
24 Todos los que se reunían a la entrada de la ciudad estuvieron de acuerdo con Jamor y con su hijo Siquén, y fue así como todos los varones fueron circuncidados. 25 Al tercer día, cuando los varones todavía estaban muy doloridos, dos de los hijos de Jacob, Simeón y Leví, hermanos de Dina, empuñaron cada uno su espada y fueron a la ciudad, donde los varones se encontraban desprevenidos, y los mataron a todos. 26 También mataron a filo de espada a Jamor y a su hijo Siquén, sacaron a Dina de la casa de Siquén y se retiraron. 27 Luego los otros hijos de Jacob llegaron y, pasando sobre los cadáveres, saquearon la ciudad en venganza por la deshonra que había sufrido su hermana. 28 Se apropiaron de sus ovejas, ganado y asnos, y de todo lo que había en la ciudad y en el campo. 29 Se llevaron todos sus bienes, y sus hijos y mujeres, y saquearon todo lo que encontraron en las casas.
30 Entonces Jacob les dijo a Simeón y Leví:
―Me habéis provocado un problema muy serio. De ahora en adelante los cananeos y ferezeos, habitantes de este lugar, me van a odiar. Si ellos se unen contra mí y me atacan, me matarán a mí y a toda mi familia, pues cuento con muy pocos hombres.
31 Pero ellos replicaron:
―¿Acaso podíamos dejar que él tratara a nuestra hermana como a una prostituta?
Genesis 34
EasyEnglish Bible
Dinah
34 Dinah was the daughter of Leah and Jacob. One day she went out to visit the young women who lived near Shechem city. 2 Hamor the Hivite ruled that region. When his son, Shechem, saw Dinah, he took hold of her. Dinah could not get free and Shechem had sex with her. 3 He liked Dinah very much. He loved her. He spoke kind words to her so that she would love him too. 4 Shechem said to his father, Hamor, ‘I want to marry this girl. Please get her for me.’ 5 Jacob heard that Shechem had had sex with his daughter. At that time, Jacob's sons were taking care of his animals in the fields. So he did not do anything until his sons came home.
6 Shechem's father, Hamor, went to talk to Jacob about Dinah. 7 Jacob's sons now heard what had happened and they came home from the fields. They were very angry because Shechem had done such a bad thing. When he caught Dinah and had sex with her, he had brought shame on Jacob's family. It was a bad thing that nobody should ever do.
8 Hamor said to Jacob and his sons, ‘My son Shechem loves your daughter. Please give her to him so that she can be his wife. 9 There should be more marriages between your people and our people. Our men should marry your daughters and our daughters should become wives for your men. 10 Then you can live among us. You can live anywhere you want to in this land. You should live here, buy and sell things. Buy land and houses here.’[a]
11 Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, ‘I would like to make you happy. So ask me for whatever you want and I will give it to you. 12 I will pay you the gifts that you ask for Dinah. It can be as much as you like. I will pay it all, because I want to have Dinah as my wife.’
13 Because of the bad thing that Shechem had done to Dinah, Jacob's sons decided to deceive him. And they deceived his father Hamor too. 14 They said, ‘We cannot give our sister to a man who has not been circumcised. We would be ashamed to do this. 15 If you want to marry Dinah, you must do one thing. You must circumcise all your males. Then you will become like us and we will agree for you to marry Dinah. 16 Then we will give you our daughters so that your men can marry them. And our men will marry your daughters. We will live among you, so that we become one people with you. 17 But your men must agree to be circumcised. If not, we will take our sister with us and we will leave this place.’
18 This idea seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem. 19 Shechem's family respected him as an important person. So Shechem and his father quickly did what Jacob's sons told them. Shechem agreed to do it because he wanted very much to marry Dinah. 20 So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of the city. They spoke to their men there. 21 They said, ‘Jacob's family are our friends. Let them live in our land, and buy and sell things. This land is big enough for them and us. We can marry their daughters, and they can marry our daughters. 22 But we must do the one thing that they have asked us to do. We must circumcise all our males in the same way that they do. If we do that, they will agree to live among us. 23 Then their things and their animals will all become our things. So we should agree to be circumcised, as they ask. Then they will live among us.’
24 All the men who were at the city gate agreed with Hamor and Shechem. So every male in the city was circumcised.
25 Three days after the men were circumcised, they still had a lot of pain. Then two of Jacob's sons attacked Shechem's men with their swords. None of the men were ready to fight. Jacob's two sons were Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers. They killed every male in the city. 26 They killed Hamor and his son Shechem. Then they took Dinah from Shechem's house and they left.
27 Jacob's other sons also saw that the men of the city were dead. So they took everything that they wanted from the city. They did that because it was the place where Shechem had done a very bad thing against their sister. 28 They took all the sheep, goats, cows and donkeys. They took everything that was in the city and in the fields near there. 29 They carried away every valuable thing for themselves. They also took all the men's wives and their children. They took everything from the houses in the city.
30 When they returned to Jacob, he said to Simeon and Levi, ‘You have brought bad trouble to me! The people who live in this land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, will hate me. I will be like a bad smell to them. We do not have many men to fight for us. If the Perizzites and Canaanites join together and they attack us, they will destroy our whole family!’ 31 But Simeon and Levi replied, ‘Shechem should not have had sex with our sister as if she were a prostitute.’
Footnotes
- 34:10 Hamor wanted the Hivites to have some of Jacob's riches.
Genesis 34
King James Version
34 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
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.
3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.
6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.
7 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.
8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
11 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.
12 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.
13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
14 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:
15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
16 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.
17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
19 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.
20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
21 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.
22 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.
23 Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of their's be our's? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.
27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, 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 took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
30 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.
31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
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