1 Dina, Jaakobin tytär, jonka äiti oli Lea, lähti tapaamaan seudun tyttöjä.

2 Seudun hivviläisen hal- litsijan Hamorin poika Sikem näki Dinan, otti hänet mukaansa ja makasi hänet väkisin.

3 Mutta Sikem kiintyi Dinaan, Jaakobin tyttäreen, rakastui häneen ja yritti lepyttää hänet.

5 Mutta Jaakob oli jo saanut tietää, että Sikem oli raiskannut hänen tyttärensä Dinan. Koska hänen poi- kansa olivat karjan mukana laitumilla, hän päätti kuitenkin vaieta heidän tuloonsa saakka.

6 Sikemin isä Hamor lähti Jaakobin puheille.

7 Jaakobin pojat olivat juuri palanneet laitumilta ja kuulleet asiasta. He olivat raivoissaan ja katkeria, sillä Sikem oli makaamalla Jaakobin tyttären loukannut Israelin kunniaa, eikä sellaista voitu sietää.

9 ja tehdään sopimus: antakaa te meille vaimoiksi tyttäriänne ja ottakaa itse meidän tyttäriämme.

13 Mutta Jaakobin pojat vastasivat Sikemille ja hänen isälleen Hamorille petollisesti, koska Sikem oli raiskannut heidän sisarensa Dinan.

15 Mutta me suostumme teidän pyyntöönne sillä ehdolla, että teette niin kuin meillä on tapana ja ympärileikkaatte kaikki miehet ja pojat.

16 Sitten me annamme teille vaimoiksi tyttäriämme ja otamme vaimoiksi teidän tyttäriänne ja asetumme asumaan luoksenne, niin että meistä tulee yksi ja sama kansa.

18 Hamor ja hänen poikansa Sikem pitivät heidän tarjoustaan hyvänä,

19 ja nuorukainen ryhtyi heti toimeen ehdon täyttämiseksi, sillä hän oli rakastunut Jaakobin tyttäreen ja hänellä oli isänsä suvussa paljon vaikutusvaltaa.

20 Hamor ja hänen poikansa menivät kaupunginportin aukiolle ja sanoivat kaupungin miehille:

22 Mutta nuo miehet suostuvat jäämään tänne meidän luoksemme ja tulemaan meidän kanssamme yhdeksi kansaksi vain, jos ympärileikkaamme täällä kaikki miehet ja pojat, niin kuin heidän tapoihinsa kuuluu.

24 Kaupungin täysi-ikäiset miehet myöntyivät Hamorin ja hänen poikansa Sikemin ehdotukseen, ja kaupungin kaikki miespuoliset asukkaat ympärileikattiin.

25 Kahden päivän kuluttua, kun kaupungin miehet olivat kipeimmillään, kaksi Jaakobin poikaa, Dinan veljet Simeon ja Leevi, ottivat kumpikin miekkansa, tunkeutuivat kenenkään estämättä kaupunkiin ja tappoivat kaikki miespuoliset asukkaat.

26 He pistivät hengiltä myös Hamorin ja hänen poikansa Sikemin ja veivät Dinan mukanaan Sikemin talosta.

27 Sitten Jaakobin pojat hyökkäsivät ryöstämään surmattujen omaisuutta ja kaupunkia, jossa heidän sisarensa oli raiskattu.

28 He ryöstivät kaupungin asukkaiden lampaat ja vuohet, nautakarjan ja aasit sekä kaiken, mitä kaupungista ja sen mailta löytyi,

29 ottivat saaliikseen heidän omaisuutensa ja myös naiset ja lapset, kaiken mitä taloissa oli.

1 Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her. 3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady. 4 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."

5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came. 6 Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him. 7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing that ought not to be done. 8 Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. 9 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. 10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."

11 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give. 12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."

13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, 14 and said to them, "We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us. 15 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised, 16 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. 17 But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone."

18 Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son. 19 The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father. 20 Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying, 21 "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters. 22 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised. 23 Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."

24 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city. 25 On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males. 26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away. 27 Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field, 29 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house. 30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."

31 They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"