1. One day Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the young women who lived in the area.
2. But when the local prince, Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, saw Dinah, he seized her and raped her.
3. But then he fell in love with her, and he tried to win her affection with tender words.
4. He said to his father, Hamor, “Get me this young girl. I want to marry her.”
5. Soon Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter, Dinah. But since his sons were out in the fields herding his livestock, he said nothing until they returned.
6. Hamor, Shechem’s father, came to discuss the matter with Jacob.