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Genesis
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English: Webster's Bible |
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Genesis 34 [Context] [Commentary] 
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And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. |
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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. |
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And his soul cleaved to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke kindly to the damsel. |
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And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel for a wife. |
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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 till they had come. |
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And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to commune with him. |
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And the sons of Jacob came from 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. |
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And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her to him for a wife. |
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And make ye marriages with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you. |
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And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein. |
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And Shechem said to her father, and to her brethren, Let me find favor in your eyes, and what ye shall say to me, I will give. |
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Ask me never so much dower and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me: but give me the damsel for a wife. |
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And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, (because he had defiled Dinah their sister,) |
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And they said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised: for that would be a reproach to us: |
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But in this will we consent to you: If ye will be as we are, that every male of you shall be circumcised; |
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Then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. |
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But if ye will not hearken to us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone. |
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