Genesis 34
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
1Egressa est autem Dina filia Liæ ut videret mulieres regionis illius.
2Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
2Quam cum vidisset Sichem filius Hemor Hevæi, princeps terræ illius, adamavit eam: et rapuit, et dormivit cum illa, vi opprimens virginem.
3His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
3Et conglutinata est anima ejus cum ea, tristemque delinivit blanditiis.
4Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”
4Et pergens ad Hemor patrem suum: Accipe, inquit, mihi puellam hanc conjugem.
5Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.
5Quod cum audisset Jacob absentibus filiis, et in pastu pecorum occupatis, siluit donec redirent.
6Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.
6Egresso autem Hemor patre Sichem ut loqueretur ad Jacob,
7The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing that ought not to be done.
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.
8Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
8Locutus est itaque Hemor ad eos: Sichem filii mei adhæsit anima filiæ vestræ: date eam illi uxorem:
9Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
9et jungamus vicissim connubia: filias vestras tradite nobis, et filias nostras accipite,
10You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”
10et habitate nobiscum: terra in potestate vestra est: exercete, negotiamini, et possidete eam.
11Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
11Sed et Sichem ad patrem et ad fratres ejus ait: Inveniam gratiam coram vobis: et quæcumque statueritis, dabo:
12Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”
12augete dotem, et munera postulate, et libenter tribuam quod petieritis: tantum date mihi puellam hanc uxorem.
13The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
13Responderunt filii Jacob Sichem et patri ejus in dolo, sævientes ob stuprum sororis:
14and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
14Non possumus facere quod petitis, nec dare sororem nostram homini incircumciso: quod illicitum et nefarium est apud nos.
15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,
15Sed in hoc valebimus fœderari, si volueritis esse similes nostri, et circumcidatur in vobis omne masculini sexus;
16then will we give our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
16tunc dabimus et accipiemus mutuo filias vestras ac nostras: et habitabimus vobiscum, erimusque unus populus.
17But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”
17Si autem circumcidi nolueritis, tollemus filiam nostram, et recedemus.
18Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.
18Placuit oblatio eorum Hemor, et Sichem filio ejus,
19The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.
19nec distulit adolescens quin statim quod petebatur expleret: amabat enim puellam valde, et ipse erat inclytus in omni domo patris sui.
20Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
20Ingressique portam urbis, locuti sunt ad populum:
21“These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters.
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.
22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.
22Unum est quo differtur tantum bonum: si circumcidamus masculos nostros, ritum gentis imitantes.
23Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”
23Et substantia eorum, et pecora, et cuncta quæ possident, nostra erunt: tantum in hoc acquiescamus, et habitantes simul, unum efficiemus populum.
24All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
24Assensique sunt omnes, circumcisis cunctis maribus.
25On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed 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,
26They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
26Hemor et Sichem pariter necaverunt, tollentes Dinam de domo Sichem sororem suam.
27Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
27Quibus egressis, irruerunt super occisos ceteri filii Jacob: et depopulati sunt urbem in ultionem stupri.
28They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,
28Oves eorum, et armenta, et asinos, cunctaque vastantes quæ in domibus et in agris erant,
29and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.
29parvulos quoque eorum et uxores duxerunt captivas.
30Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”
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.
31They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”
31Responderunt: Numquid ut scorto abuti debuere sorore nostra?
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