Now let it be that the young woman to whom I say, ‘Please let down your pitcher that I may drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. And by this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

Now the young woman was very beautiful to behold, a virgin; no man had known her. And she went down to the well, filled her pitcher, and came up.

So the young woman ran and told her mother’s household these things.

But her brother and her mother said, “Let the young woman stay with us a few days, at least ten; after that she may go.”

So they said, “We will call the young woman and ask her personally.”

His soul was strongly attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman and spoke kindly to the young woman.

So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this young woman as a wife.”

Ask me ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give according to what you say to me; but give me the young woman as a wife.”