1. Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the women who lived there.
2. She was seen by Hamor's son Shechem, the leader of the Hivites, and he grabbed her and raped her.
3. But Shechem was attracted to Dinah, so he told her how much he loved her.
4. He even asked his father to get her for his wife.
5. Meanwhile, Jacob heard what had happened. But his sons were out in the fields with the cattle, so he did not do anything at the time.
6. Hamor arrived at Jacob's home
7. just as Jacob's sons were coming in from work. When they learnt that their sister had been raped, they became furiously angry. Nothing is more disgraceful than rape, and it should not be tolerated in Israel.
8. Hamor said to Jacob and his sons:My son Shechem really loves Dinah. Please let him marry her.
9. Why don't you start letting your families marry into our families and ours marry into yours?
10. You can share this land with us. Move freely about until you find the property you want; then buy it and settle down here.
11. Shechem added, “Do this favour for me, and I'll give whatever you want.
12. Ask anything, no matter how expensive. I'll do anything, just let me marry Dinah.”
13. Jacob's sons wanted to get even with Shechem and his father because of what had happened to their sister.
14. So they tricked them by saying:You're not circumcised! It would be a disgrace for us to let you marry Dinah now.
15. But we will let you marry her, if you and the other men in your tribe get circumcised.
16. Then your families can marry into ours, and ours can marry into yours, and we can live together like one nation.