1 En Dina, die dogter van Lea, wat sy vir Jakob gebaar het, het uitgegaan om die dogters van die land te leer ken.
2 Toe Sigem, die seun van Hemor, die Hewiet, die vors van die land, haar sien, het hy haar gegryp en met haar gemeenskap gehad en haar onteer.
3 En sy siel het verkleef geraak aan Dina, die dogter van Jakob; en hy het die dogter liefgehad en na die hart van die dogter gespreek.
4 Sigem het ook met sy vader Hemor gespreek en gesê: Neem daardie dogter vir my as vrou.
5 Toe Jakob dan hoor dat hy sy dogter Dina onteer het, was sy seuns by sy vee in die veld; en Jakob het geswyg totdat hulle gekom het.
6 En Hemor, die vader van Sigem, het na Jakob uitgegaan om met hom te spreek.
7 En die seuns van Jakob het uit die veld gekom toe hulle dit hoor; en die manne was gegrief en baie kwaad, omdat hy 'n skanddaad in Israel begaan het deur met die dogter van Jakob gemeenskap te hou: so iets mag nie gebeur het nie.
8 Toe spreek Hemor met hulle en sê: Die siel van my seun Sigem is verlief op julle dogter: gee haar tog aan hom as vrou
9 en verswaer julle met ons: gee aan ons julle dogters, en neem vir julle ons dogters.
10 Bly maar by ons woon, en die land sal voor julle oop lê; woon en trek rond daarin en verwerf vaste besittings daarin.
11 En Sigem sê vir haar vader en haar broers: Laat my guns vind in julle oë, en wat julle van my eis, sal ek gee.
12 Vra my 'n baie groot koopprys en geskenk, en ek sal dit gee soos julle aan my sê; gee my net die dogter as vrou.
13 Toe antwoord die seuns van Jakob vir Sigem en Hemor, sy vader, met bedrog -- hulle het so gespreek, omdat hy hulle suster Dina onteer het --
14 en sê vir hulle: Ons kan dit nie doen om ons suster aan 'n man te gee wat die voorhuid het nie, want dit sou 'n skande vir ons wees.
15 Net op hierdie voorwaarde kan ons inwillig: as julle word soos ons deurdat almal wat manlik is onder julle, besny word.
16 Dan sal ons ons dogters aan julle gee, en ons sal julle dogters vir ons neem; en ons sal by julle woon en een volk word.
17 Maar as julle nie na ons luister om besny te word nie, dan neem ons ons dogter en ons trek weg.
18 En hulle woorde was goed in die oë van Hemor en in die oë van Sigem, die seun van Hemor.
19 En die jongman het nie versuim om dit te doen nie, want hy het sin gehad in die dogter van Jakob, en hy was die mees geëerde in die hele huis van sy vader.
20 Toe gaan Hemor en sy seun Sigem na die poort van hulle stad, en hulle spreek met die manne van hul stad en sê:
21 Hierdie manne lewe in vrede met ons; daarom, laat hulle in die land woon en daarin rondtrek: die land lê mos alkante toe wyd voor hulle. Ons kan hulle dogters vir ons as vroue neem, en ons sal ons dogters aan hulle gee.
22 Maar net op hierdie voorwaarde sal die manne inwillig om by ons te woon, om een volk te word: as almal wat manlik is onder ons, besny word soos hulle besny is.
23 Hulle vee en hulle besittings en al hulle diere -- sal dit nie ons s'n wees nie? Laat ons net inwillig, sodat hulle by ons kan bly woon.
24 En hulle het geluister na Hemor en na sy seun Sigem almal wat uit sy stadspoort uitgegaan het; en almal wat manlik was, is besny, almal wat uit sy stadspoort uitgegaan het.
25 Maar op die derde dag, toe hulle in die pyn was, neem die twee seuns van Jakob, S¡meon en Levi, broers van Dina, elkeen sy swaard, en hulle oorval die sorgelose stad en slaan almal dood wat manlik was.
26 Hulle slaan ook Hemor en sy seun Sigem dood met die skerpte van die swaard; daarna neem hulle Dina uit die huis van Sigem uit en vertrek.
27 Die seuns van Jakob het op die gesneuweldes afgekom en die stad geplunder, omdat hulle hulle suster onteer het.
28 Hulle kleinvee en hulle beeste en hulle esels -- wat in die stad en in die veld was -- het hulle weggeneem.
29 En al hulle goed en al hulle kinders en hulle vroue het hulle as gevangenes weggevoer en as buit, en ook alles wat in die huise was.
30 Toe sê Jakob vir S¡meon en Levi: Julle het my ontroer dat julle my gehaat gemaak het by die inwoners van die land, die Kana„niete en Feresiete, terwyl ek 'n klein klompie is. As hulle hul teen my versamel, sal hulle my verslaan, en ek sal verdelg word, ek en my huis.
31 Toe antwoord hulle: Hoe durf hy dan ons suster as 'n hoer behandel!
1 Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had by Jacob, went out to see the women of that country.
2 And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had connection with her.
3 Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.
4 And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.
5 Now Jacob had word of what Shechem had done to his daughter; but his sons were in the fields with the cattle, and Jacob said nothing till they came.
6 Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, came out to have a talk with Jacob.
7 Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done.
8 But Hamor said to them, Shechem, my son, is full of desire for your daughter: will you then give her to him for a wife?
9 And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
10 Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.
11 And Shechem said to her father and her brothers, If you will give ear to my request, whatever you say I will give to you.
12 However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.
13 But the sons of Jacob gave a false answer to Shechem and Hamor his father, because of what had been done to Dinah their sister.
14 And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us:
15 But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;
16 Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on living with you as one people.
17 But if you will not undergo circumcision as we say, then we will take our daughter and go.
18 And their words were pleasing to Hamor and his son Shechem.
19 And without loss of time the young man did as they said, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was the noblest of his father's house.
20 Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town,
21 It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.
22 But these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to become one people, only on the condition that every male among us undergoes circumcision as they have done.
23 Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.
24 Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision.
25 But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put all the males to death.
26 And Hamor and his son they put to death with the sword, and they took Dinah from Shechem's house and went away.
27 And the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded and made waste the town because of what had been done to their sister;
28 They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fields,
29 And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.
30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.
31 But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?