1. Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit some of the women of the land.
2. When Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, the leader of the region, saw her, he seized her and lay with her by force.
3. He was strongly attracted to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and was in love with the young woman. So he spoke affectionately to her.
4. Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this young woman for a wife.”
5. Meanwhile, Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah; but since his sons were out in the field with his livestock, Jacob kept quiet until they came home.