Lexham English Bible

Genesis 34:1-7 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

1. Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

2. And Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. And he took her and lay with her and raped her.

3. And his soul clung to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to the girl.

4. So Shechem said to Hamor his father, saying, “Get this girl for me as a wife.”

5. And Jacob heard that Dinah his daughter had been defiled, but his sons were with his flocks in the field. And Jacob kept silent until they came.

6. And Hamor, father of Shechem, went out to Jacob to speak with him.

7. And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. And the men were distressed and very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by having sexual relations with the daughter of Jacob—something that should not be done.