Genesis 34:20-31

Legacy Standard Bible

²⁰ So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the ^(A)gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying, ²¹ “These men are peaceful with us; therefore let them ^[a]live in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is ^[b]large enough for them. Let us take their daughters for us as wives and give our daughters to them. ²² Only on this condition will the men consent to us to ^[c]live with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised. ²³ Will not their livestock and what they acquire and all their cattle be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will ^[d]live with us.” ^24 (B)And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

²⁵ Now it happened on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob’s sons, ^(C)Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and came upon the unsuspecting city and killed every male. ²⁶ And they killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword and took Dinah from Shechem’s house and went away. ²⁷ Jacob’s sons came upon the slain and plundered the city because they had defiled their sister. 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 they captured and plundered all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives, even all that was in the houses. ³⁰ Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have ^(D)brought trouble on me by ^(E)making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among ^(F)the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and ^[e](G)my men being few in number, they will gather together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my household.” ³¹ But they said, “Should he ^[f]treat our sister as a harlot?”