Genesis 34 (NET)

Genesis 34:1¹Now Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went to meet the young women of the land.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 30:21Jer 2:361 Tim 5:13Gen 26:34Gen 27:46Gen 28:6Gen 30:13Gen 46:15Titus 2:5

Genesis 34:2²When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who ruled that area, saw her, he grabbed her, forced himself on her, and sexually assaulted her.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 5:28Job 31:1Job 31:9Judg 14:1Prov 13:202 Sam 11:2Deut 21:14Deut 22:24Deut 22:29Ezek 22:10-11

Genesis 34:3³Then he became very attached to Dinah, Jacob’s daughter. He fell in love with the young woman and spoke romantically to her.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 2:14Isa 40:21 Sam 18:12 Chr 30:222 Sam 19:7Ruth 1:14

Genesis 34:4⁴Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Acquire this young girl as my wife.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 14:22 Sam 13:13Gen 21:21

Genesis 34:5⁵When Jacob heard that Shechem had violated his daughter Dinah, his sons were with the livestock in the field. So Jacob remained silent until they came in.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 13:221 Sam 10:271 Sam 16:111 Sam 17:15Gen 30:35Gen 37:13-14Lev 10:3Luke 15:25Luke 15:29

Genesis 34:6⁶Then Shechem’s father Hamor went to speak with Jacob about Dinah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 34:7⁷Now Jacob’s sons had come in from the field when they heard the news. They were offended and very angry because Shechem had disgraced Israel by sexually assaulting Jacob’s daughter, a crime that should not be committed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 7:15Judg 20:6Deut 22:21Gen 20:9Heb 13:41 Cor 10:81 Cor 6:181 Pet 2:92 Sam 13:12-132 Sam 13:21

Genesis 34:8⁸But Hamor made this appeal to them: “My son Shechem is in love with your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:2Ps 119:20Gen 34:3Ps 63:1Ps 84:2

Genesis 34:9⁹Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 7:3Gen 19:14Gen 24:3Gen 26:34-35Gen 27:46Gen 6:2

Genesis 34:10¹⁰You may live among us, and the land will be open to you. Live in it, travel freely in it, and acquire property in it.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 13:9Gen 20:15Gen 42:34Gen 47:27Gen 34:21-23

Genesis 34:11¹¹Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your sight, and whatever you require of me I’ll give.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 33:15Gen 18:3

Genesis 34:12¹²You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, and I’ll give whatever you ask of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 22:16-171 Sam 18:25-272 Sam 3:14Deut 22:28-29Gen 24:53Gen 29:18Gen 31:41Matt 14:17Hos 3:2

Genesis 34:13¹³Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 5:152 Sam 13:23-29Gen 25:27-34Isa 59:13Job 13:4Job 13:7Judg 15:3Matt 28:13Mic 7:2Prov 12:13

Genesis 34:14¹⁴They said to them, “We cannot give our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace to us.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 21:91 Sam 14:61 Sam 17:261 Sam 17:362 Sam 1:202 Sam 15:7Gen 17:11Gen 17:14Josh 5:2-9Matt 2:13

Genesis 34:15¹⁵We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 4:12

Genesis 34:16¹⁶Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 34:17¹⁷But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 34:18¹⁸Their offer pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 34:19¹⁹The young man did not delay in doing what they asked because he wanted Jacob’s daughter Dinah badly. (Now he was more important than anyone in his father’s household.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 4:91 Sam 22:142 Kgs 5:1Acts 13:50Acts 17:12Gen 29:20Gen 41:20Isa 23:8-9Isa 3:3-5Isa 5:13

Genesis 34:20²⁰So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ruth 4:12 Sam 15:2Amos 5:10Amos 5:12Amos 5:15Deut 17:5Gen 22:17Gen 23:10Job 29:7Prov 31:23

Genesis 34:21²¹“These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 34:22²²Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 34:23²³If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 1:12-131 Tim 6:6-10Acts 19:24-26John 2:16John 6:26-27Prov 23:4-5Prov 28:20

Genesis 34:24²⁴All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 7:19Gen 23:10Gen 17:23Gen 23:18Isa 1:10-16Matt 7:6Rom 2:28-29

Genesis 34:25²⁵In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city and slaughtered every male.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 49:5-7Gen 29:33-342 Chr 32:25Josh 5:6Josh 5:8Num 31:17Num 31:7Prov 4:16Prov 6:34-35

Genesis 34:26²⁶They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and left.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 2:26Deut 32:42Isa 31:8

Genesis 34:27²⁷Jacob’s sons killed them and looted the city because their sister had been violated.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 6:10Esth 9:10Esth 9:16Exod 2:14Gen 34:2Gen 34:31Josh 7:1Josh 7:13Josh 7:21

Genesis 34:28²⁸They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 8:17-18Job 1:15-16Job 20:5Num 31:17

Genesis 34:29²⁹They captured as plunder all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 34:30³⁰Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought ruin on me by making me a foul odor among the inhabitants of the land—among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 13:4Exod 5:21Josh 7:25Ps 105:121 Chr 16:191 Chr 19:61 Sam 27:12Gen 13:7Gen 28:13-14Gen 49:5-7

Genesis 34:31³¹But Simeon and Levi replied, “Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 6:34Gen 34:13Gen 49:7