1. Now Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore for Jacob, went out to look at the daughters of the land.
2. When Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her and raped her.
3. But his soul clung to Dinah, Jacob’s daughter, and he loved the young woman and spoke reassuringly to the young woman.
4. So Shechem said to his father Hamor saying, “Get me this girl for a wife.”
5. Now Jacob had heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah while his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob kept quiet until they came in.
6. Meanwhile Shechem’s father Hamor went out to Jacob in order to speak with him.
7. Jacob’s sons had already come in from the field when they heard, and the men were deeply grieved and furious, because he had committed a vile deed in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, which ought never to be done.
8. But Hamor spoke with them saying, “My son Shechem—he’s very attached to your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife.
9. Intermarry with us. You can give your daughters to us, and you can take our daughters for yourselves.
10. You can live with us, and the land will be open to you: live in it, move about freely in it, and settle down in it.”
11. Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, “Would that I find favor in your eyes! Whatever you say to me I’ll give.
12. Set the dowry and the presents as high as you like and I’ll give whatever you say to me. But give me the young woman as a wife.”
13. But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully as they spoke, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.