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Genesis 34:1-6 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

1. One day Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the Canaanite women.

2. When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who was chief of that region, saw her, he took her and raped her.

3. But he found the young woman so attractive that he fell in love with her and tried to win her affection.

4. He said to his father, “I want you to get this woman for me as my wife.”

5. Jacob learnt that his daughter had been disgraced, but because his sons were out in the fields with his livestock, he did nothing until they came back.

6. Shechem's father Hamor went out to talk with Jacob,

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