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Genesis 34:7-13 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

7. behold, his sons arrived from the field. And hearing what had happened, they were very angry, because he had done a filthy thing in Israel and, in violating a daughter of Jacob, had perpetrated an unlawful act.

8. And so Hamor spoke to them: "The soul of my son Shechem has become attached to your daughter. Give her to him as a wife.

9. And let us celebrate marriages with one with another. Give us your daughters, and receive our daughters.

10. And live with us. The land is in your power: cultivate, trade, and possess it."

11. And Shechem even said to her father and to her brothers: "May I find favor in your sight, and whatever you will appoint, I will give.

12. Increase the dowry, and request gifts, and I will freely bestow what you will ask. Only give me this girl as a wife."

13. The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father with deceit, being enraged at the rape of their sister:

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