These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Genesis 34
Tanakh 31 verses
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And the daughter of , whom she had borne unto , went out to see the daughters of the land.
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- 2 And the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her; and he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her.
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And his did cleave unto the daughter of , and he loved the damsel, and spoke comfortingly unto the damsel.
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And spoke unto his father Hamor, saying: ‘Get me this damsel to wife.’
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- 5 Now heard that he had defiled his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field; and held his until they came.
- 6 And Hamor the father of went out unto to speak with him.
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And the sons of came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought a vile deed in in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
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Judges 20:6 Joshua 7:15 Deuteronomy 22:21 Hebrews 13:4 Genesis 20:9 1 Peter 2:9 1 Timothy 5:13 Deuteronomy 23:17 Colossians 3:5 Judges 19:22-25 Proverbs 7:7 Leviticus 4:13 James 3:10 1 Corinthians 10:8 2 Samuel 13:12-13 1 Corinthians 6:18 Leviticus 4:2 Genesis 46:7 Psalm 93:5 Ephesians 5:3 Leviticus 4:27 Exodus 19:5-6 2 Samuel 13:21 -
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And Hamor spoke with them, saying ‘The of my son longeth for your daughter. I pray you give her unto him to wife.
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And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
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And ye shall dwell with us; and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.’
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And said unto her father and unto her brethren: ‘Let me find favour in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.
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- 12 Ask me never so much dowry and , and I will give according as ye shall say unto me; but give me the damsel to wife.’
- 13 And the sons of answered and Hamor his father with guile, and spoke, because he had defiled their sister,
- 14 and said unto them: ‘We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us.
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Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
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- 16 then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
- 17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.’
- 18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Hamor’s son.
- 19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter. And he was honoured above all the house of his father.
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And Hamor and his son came unto the gate of their city, and spoke with the men of their city, saying:
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- 21 These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for, behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
- 22 Only on this condition will the men consent unto us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
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Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.’
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And unto Hamor and unto his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
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- 25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of the sons of , and , Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and slew all the males.
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And they slew Hamor and his son with the edge of the sword, and took out of Shechem’s house, and went forth.
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The sons of came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
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They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field;
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- 29 and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive and spoiled, even all that was in the house.
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And said to and : ‘Ye have troubled me, to make me odious unto the inhabitants of the land, even unto the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.’
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Exodus 5:21 1 Samuel 13:4 Psalm 105:12 Joshua 7:25 Genesis 13:7 Genesis 28:13-14 Genesis 49:5-7 1 Chronicles 19:6 1 Samuel 27:12 1 Chronicles 16:19 Genesis 46:27 1 Samuel 16:2 1 Chronicles 16:12 Proverbs 15:27 1 Samuel 27:1 1 Chronicles 2:7 Romans 4:18-20 2 Samuel 10:6 1 Kings 18:18 Proverbs 11:17 Genesis 12:12 Proverbs 11:29 Genesis 12:2 Deuteronomy 7:7 Deuteronomy 4:17 -
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And they said: ‘Should one deal with our sister as with a harlot?’
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