Genesis 34:1-8

Dinah and the Shechemites

1 Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land.
2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and raped her.
3 His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.
4 And Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as my wife.”
5 When Jacob heard that his daughter Dinah had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his livestock; so he did nothing about it until they came home.
6 Then Shechem’s father Hamor went out to talk with Jacob.
7 Meanwhile, Jacob’s sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked and furious, because Shechem had done an outrageous thing in[a] Israel by sleeping with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.
8 But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.

Cross References 17

  • 1. S Genesis 30:21
  • 2. S Genesis 33:19
  • 3. S Genesis 33:19
  • 4. S Genesis 10:17
  • 5. Deuteronomy 21:14; 2 Samuel 13:14
  • 6. ver 26
  • 7. ver 19
  • 8. S Genesis 24:67
  • 9. Genesis 50:21; Isaiah 14:1; Isaiah 40:2
  • 10. S Genesis 21:21
  • 11. ver 2,13,27; Genesis 35:22; Genesis 49:4; Deuteronomy 27:20; Deuteronomy 33:6; 1 Chronicles 5:1
  • 12. Judges 14:2-5
  • 13. 1 Corinthians 5:2
  • 14. Genesis 39:19; Genesis 49:6-7; 2 Samuel 12:5; 2 Samuel 13:21; Esther 7:7; Proverbs 6:34
  • 15. Deuteronomy 22:21; Judges 19:23; Judges 20:6; 2 Samuel 13:12; Jeremiah 29:23
  • 16. S Genesis 20:9; Joshua 7:15
  • 17. S Genesis 21:21; Deuteronomy 21:11

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