Genesis 34
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1Egressa est autem Dina filia Liæ ut videret mulieres regionis illius.
1And Dina the daughter of Lia went out to see the women of that country.
2Quam cum vidisset Sichem filius Hemor Hevæi, princeps terræ illius, adamavit eam: et rapuit, et dormivit cum illa, vi opprimens virginem.
2And when Sichem the son of Hemor the Hevite, the prince of that land, saw her, he was in love with her: and took her away, and lay with her, ravishing the virgin.
3Et conglutinata est anima ejus cum ea, tristemque delinivit blanditiis.
3And his soul was fast knit unto her, and whereas she was sad, he comforted her with sweet words.
4Et pergens ad Hemor patrem suum: Accipe, inquit, mihi puellam hanc conjugem.
4And going to Hemor his father, he said: Get me this damsel to wife.
5Quod cum audisset Jacob absentibus filiis, et in pastu pecorum occupatis, siluit donec redirent.
5But when Jacob had heard this, his sons being absent, and employed in feeding the cattle, he held his peace till they came back.
6Egresso autem Hemor patre Sichem ut loqueretur ad Jacob,
6And when Hemor the father of Sichem was come out to speak to Jacob,
7ecce filii ejus veniebant de agro: auditoque quod acciderat, irati sunt valde, eo quod fœdam rem operatus esset in Israël et, violata filia Jacob, rem illicitam perpetrasset.
7Behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed, they were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel, and committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob’s daughter,
8Locutus est itaque Hemor ad eos: Sichem filii mei adhæsit anima filiæ vestræ: date eam illi uxorem:
8And Hemor spoke to them: The soul of my son Sichem has a longing for your daughter: give her him to wife:
9et jungamus vicissim connubia: filias vestras tradite nobis, et filias nostras accipite,
9And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters and take you our daughters,
10et habitate nobiscum: terra in potestate vestra est: exercete, negotiamini, et possidete eam.
10And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and possess it.
11Sed et Sichem ad patrem et ad fratres ejus ait: Inveniam gratiam coram vobis: et quæcumque statueritis, dabo:
11Sichem also said to her father and to her brethren: Let me find favour in your sight: and whatsoever you shall appoint I will give.
12augete dotem, et munera postulate, et libenter tribuam quod petieritis: tantum date mihi puellam hanc uxorem.
12Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.
13Responderunt filii Jacob Sichem et patri ejus in dolo, sævientes ob stuprum sororis:
13The sons of Jacob answered Sichem and his father deceitfully, being enraged at the deflowering of their sister:
14Non possumus facere quod petitis, nec dare sororem nostram homini incircumciso: quod illicitum et nefarium est apud nos.
14We cannot do what you demand, nor give our sister to one that is uncircumcised, which with us is unlawful and abominable.
15Sed in hoc valebimus fœderari, si volueritis esse similes nostri, et circumcidatur in vobis omne masculini sexus;
15But in this we may be allied with you, if you will be like us, and all the male sex among you be circumcised:
16tunc dabimus et accipiemus mutuo filias vestras ac nostras: et habitabimus vobiscum, erimusque unus populus.
16Then will we mutually give and take your daughters, and ours: and we will dwell with you, and will be one people:
17Si autem circumcidi nolueritis, tollemus filiam nostram, et recedemus.
17But if you will not be circumcised, we will take our daughter and depart:
18Placuit oblatio eorum Hemor, et Sichem filio ejus,
18Their offer pleased Hemor, and Sichem his son:
19nec distulit adolescens quin statim quod petebatur expleret: amabat enim puellam valde, et ipse erat inclytus in omni domo patris sui.
19And the young man made no delay, but forthwith fulfilled what was required, for he loved the damsel exceedingly, and he was the greatest man in all his father’s house.
20Ingressique portam urbis, locuti sunt ad populum:
20And going into the gate of the city they spoke to the people:
21Viri isti pacifici sunt, et volunt habitare nobiscum: negotientur in terra, et exerceant eam, quæ spatiosa et lata cultoribus indiget: filias eorum accipiemus uxores, et nostras illis dabimus.
21These men are peaceable and willing to dwell with us: let them trade in the land, and till it, which being large and wide wanteth men to till it: we shall take their daughters for wives, and we will give them ours.
22Unum est quo differtur tantum bonum: si circumcidamus masculos nostros, ritum gentis imitantes.
22One thing there is for which so great a good is deferred: We must circumcise every male among us, following the manner of the nation.
23Et substantia eorum, et pecora, et cuncta quæ possident, nostra erunt: tantum in hoc acquiescamus, et habitantes simul, unum efficiemus populum.
23And their substance, and cattle, and all that they possess, shall be ours: only in this let us condescend, and by dwelling together, we shall make one people.
24Assensique sunt omnes, circumcisis cunctis maribus.
24And they all agreed, and circumcised all the males.
25Et ecce, die tertio, quando gravissimus vulnerum dolor est: arreptis duo filii Jacob, Simeon et Levi fratres Dinæ, gladiis, ingressi sunt urbem confidenter: interfectisque omnibus masculis,
25And behold the third day, when the pain of the wound was greatest, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dina, taking their swords, entered boldly into the city, and slew all the men:
26Hemor et Sichem pariter necaverunt, tollentes Dinam de domo Sichem sororem suam.
26And they killed also Hemor and Sichem, and took away their sister Dina, out of Sichem’s house.
27Quibus egressis, irruerunt super occisos ceteri filii Jacob: et depopulati sunt urbem in ultionem stupri.
27And when they were gone out, the other sons of Jacob came upon the slain; and plundered the city in revenge of the rape.
28Oves eorum, et armenta, et asinos, cunctaque vastantes quæ in domibus et in agris erant,
28And they took their sheep and their herds and their asses, wasting all they had in their houses and in the fields.
29parvulos quoque eorum et uxores duxerunt captivas.
29And their children and wives they took captive,
30Quibus patratis audacter, Jacob dixit ad Simeon et Levi: Turbastis me, et odiosum fecistis me Chananæis, et Pherezæis habitatoribus terræ hujus: nos pauci sumus; illi congregati percutient me, et delebor ego, et domus mea.
30And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land: we are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house, shall be destroyed.
31Responderunt: Numquid ut scorto abuti debuere sorore nostra?
31They answered: Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?
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