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1Or Dina, la figliuola che Lea aveva partorito a Giacobbe, uscì per vedere le figliuole del paese. 2E Sichem, figliuolo di Hemor lo Hivveo, principe del paese, vedutala, la rapì, si giacque con lei, e la violentò. 3E l’anima sua s’appassionò per Dina, figliuola di Giacobbe; egli amò la fanciulla, e parlò al cuore di lei. 4Poi disse a Hemor suo padre: "Dammi questa fanciulla per moglie". 5Or Giacobbe udì ch’egli avea disonorato la sua figliuola Dina; e come i suoi figliuoli erano ai campi col suo bestiame, Giacobbe si tacque finché non furon tornati. 6E Hemor, padre di Sichem, si recò da Giacobbe per parlargli. 7E i figliuoli di Giacobbe, com’ebbero udito il fatto, tornarono dai campi; e questi uomini furono addolorati e fortemente adirati perché costui aveva commessa un’infamia in Israele, giacendosi con la figliuola di Giacobbe: cosa che non era da farsi. 8Ed Hemor parlò loro dicendo: "L’anima del mio figliuolo Sichem s’è unita strettamente alla vostra figliuola; deh, dategliela per moglie; 9e imparentatevi con noi; dateci le vostre figliuole, e prendetevi le figliuole nostre. 10Voi abiterete con noi, e il paese sarà a vostra disposizione; dimoratevi, trafficatevi, e acquistatevi delle proprietà". 11Allora Sichem disse al padre e ai fratelli di Dina: "Fate ch’io trovi grazia agli occhi vostri, e vi darò quel che mi direte. 12Imponetemi pure una gran dote e di gran doni; e io ve li darò come mi direte; ma datemi la fanciulla per moglie". 13I figliuoli di Giacobbe risposero a Sichem e ad Hemor suo padre, e parlarono loro con astuzia, perché Sichem avea disonorato Dina loro sorella; 14e dissero loro: "Questa cosa non la possiamo fare; non possiam dare la nostra sorella a uno che non è circonciso; giacché questo, per noi, sarebbe un obbrobrio. 15Soltanto a questa condizione acconsentiremo alla vostra richiesta: se vorrete essere come siam noi, circoncidendo ogni maschio tra voi. 16Allora vi daremo le nostre figliuole, e noi ci prenderemo le figliuole vostre; abiteremo con voi, e diventeremo un popolo solo. 17Ma se non ci volete ascoltare e non vi volete far circoncidere, noi prenderemo la nostra fanciulla e ce ne andremo". 18Le loro parole piacquero ad Hemor e a Sichem figliuolo di Hemor. 19E il giovine non indugiò a fare la cosa, perché portava affezione alla figliuola di Giacobbe, ed era l’uomo più onorato in tutta la casa di suo padre. 20Hemor e Sichem, suo figliuolo, vennero alla porta della loro città, e parlarono alla gente della loro città, dicendo: 21"Questa è gente pacifica, qui tra noi; rimanga dunque pure nel paese, e vi traffichi; poiché, ecco, il paese è abbastanza ampio per loro. Noi prenderemo le loro figliuole per mogli, e daremo loro le nostre. 22Ma soltanto a questa condizione questa gente acconsentirà ad abitare con noi per formare un popolo solo: che ogni maschio fra noi sia circonciso, come son circoncisi loro. 23Il loro bestiame, le loro sostanze, tutti i loro animali non saran nostri? Acconsentiamo alla loro domanda ed essi abiteranno con noi". 24E tutti quelli che uscivano dalla porta della città diedero ascolto ad Hemor e a Sichem suo figliuolo; e ogni maschio fu circonciso: ognuno di quelli che uscivano dalla porta della città. 25Or avvenne che il terzo giorno, mentre quelli eran sofferenti, due de’ figliuoli di Giacobbe, Simeone e Levi, fratelli di Dina, presero ciascuno la propria spada, assalirono la città che si tenea sicura, e uccisero tutti i maschi. 26Passarono anche a fil di spada Hemor e Sichem suo figliuolo, presero Dina dalla casa di Sichem, e uscirono. 27I figliuoli di Giacobbe si gettarono sugli uccisi e saccheggiarono la città, perché la loro sorella era stata disonorata; 28presero i loro greggi, i loro armenti, i loro asini, quello che era in città, e quello che era per i campi, 29e portaron via come bottino tutte le loro ricchezze, tutti i loro piccoli bambini, le loro mogli, e tutto quello che si trovava nelle case. 30Allora Giacobbe disse a Simeone ed a Levi: "Voi mi date grande affanno, mettendomi in cattivo odore presso gli abitanti del paese, presso i Cananei ed i Ferezei. Ed io non ho che poca gente; essi si raduneranno contro di me e mi daranno addosso, e sarò distrutto: io con la mia casa". 31Ed essi risposero: "Dovrà la nostra sorella esser trattata come una meretrice?"

1Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her. 3His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady. 4Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.” 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. 6Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him. 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 ought not to be done. 8Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. 9Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. 10You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.” 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. 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.” 13The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, 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. 15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised; 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. 17But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.” 18Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son. 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. 20Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying, 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 us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. 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. 23Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.” 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. 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. 26They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away. 27Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field, 29and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house. 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.” 31They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”

1En Dina, de dochter van Lea, die zij Jakob gebaard had, ging uit, om de dochteren van dat land te bezien. 2Sichem nu, de zoon van Hemor den Heviet, den landvorst, zag haar, en hij nam ze, en lag bij haar, en verkrachtte ze. 3En zijn ziel kleefde aan Dina, Jakobs dochter; en hij had de jonge dochter lief, en sprak naar het hart van de jonge dochter. 4Sichem sprak ook tot zijn vader Hemor, zeggende: Neem mij deze dochter tot een vrouw. 5Toen Jakob hoorde, dat hij zijn dochter Dina verontreinigd had, zo waren zijn zonen met het vee in het veld; en Jakob zweeg, totdat zij kwamen. 6En Hemor, de vader van Sichem, ging uit tot Jakob, om met hem te spreken. 7En de zonen van Jakob kwamen van het veld, als zij dit hoorden; en het smartte deze mannen, en zij ontstaken zeer, omdat hij dwaasheid in Israel gedaan had, Jakobs dochter beslapende, hetwelk alzo niet zoude gedaan worden. 8Toen sprak Hemor met hen, zeggende: Mijns zoons Sichems ziel is verliefd op ulieder dochter; geeft hem haar toch tot een vrouw. 9En verzwagert u met ons; geeft ons uw dochteren; en neemt voor u onze dochteren; 10En woont met ons; en het land zal voor uw aangezicht zijn; woont, en handelt daarin, en stelt u tot bezitters daarin. 11En Sichem zeide tot haar vader, en tot haar broederen: Laat mij genade vinden in uw ogen; en wat gij tot mij zeggen zult, zal ik geven. 12Vergroot zeer over mij den bruidschat en het geschenk; en ik zal geven, gelijk als gij tot mij zult zeggen; geef mij slechts de jonge dochter tot een vrouw. 13Toen antwoordden Jakobs zonen aan Sichem en Hemor, zijn vader, bedriegelijk, en spraken (overmits dat hij Dina, hun zuster, verontreinigd had); 14En zij zeiden tot hen: Wij zullen deze zaak niet kunnen doen, dat wij onze zuster aan een man geven zouden, die de voorhuid heeft; want dat ware ons een schande. 15Doch hierin zullen wij u ter wille zijn, zo gij wordt gelijk als wij, dat onder u besneden worde al wat mannelijk is. 16Dan zullen wij u onze dochteren geven, en uw dochteren zullen wij ons nemen, en wij zullen met u wonen, en wij zullen tot een volk zijn. 17Maar zo gij naar ons niet zult horen, om besneden te worden, zo zullen wij onze dochteren nemen, en wegtrekken. 18En hun woorden waren goed in de ogen van Hemor, en in de ogen van Sichem, Hemors zoon. 19En de jongeling vertoogde niet, deze zaak te doen; want hij had lust in Jakobs dochter; en hij was geeerd boven al zijns vaders huis. 20Zo kwam Hemor en Sichem, zijn zoon, tot hunner stadspoort; en zij spraken tot de mannen hunner stad, zeggende: 21Deze mannen zijn vreedzaam met ons; daarom laat hen in dit land wonen, en daarin handelen, en het land (ziet het is wijd van begrip) voor hun aangezicht zijn; wij zullen ons hun dochteren tot vrouwen nemen, en wij zullen onze dochteren aan hen geven. 22Doch hierin zullen deze mannen ons ter wille zijn, dat zij met ons wonen, om tot een volk te zijn; als al wat mannelijk is onder ons besneden wordt, gelijk als zij besneden zijn. 23Hun vee, en hun bezitting, en al hun beesten, zullen die niet onze zijn? Alleen laat ons hun te wille zijn, en zij zullen met ons wonen. 24En zij hoorden naar Hemor, en naar Sichem, zijn zoon, allen, die ter zijner stadspoort uitgingen; en zij werden besneden, al wat mannelijk was, allen, die ter zijner stadspoort uitgingen. 25En het geschiedde ten derden dage, toen zij in de smart waren, zo namen de twee zonen van Jakob, Simeon en Levi, broeders van Dina, een iegelijk zijn zwaard, en kwamen stoutelijk in de stad, en doodden al wat mannelijk was. 26Zij sloegen ook Hemor, en zijn zoon Sichem, dood met de scherpte des zwaards; en zij namen Dina uit Sichems huis, en gingen van daar. 27De zonen van Jakob kwamen over de verslagenen, en plunderden de stad, omdat zij hun zuster verontreinigd hadden. 28Hun schapen, en hun runderen, en hun ezelen, en hetgeen dat in de stad, en hetgeen dat in het veld was, namen zij. 29En al hun vermogen, en al hun kleine kinderen, en hun vrouwen, voerden zij gevankelijk weg, en plunderden denzelven, en al wat binnenshuis was. 30Toen zeide Jakob tot Simeon en tot Levi: Gij hebt mij beroerd, mits mij stinkende te maken onder de inwoners dezes lands, onder de Kanaanieten, en onder de Ferezieten; en ik ben weinig volks in getal; zo zij zich tegen mij verzamelen, zo zullen zij mij slaan, en ik zal verdelgd worden, ik en mijn huis. 31En zij zeiden: Zou hij dan met onze zuster als met een hoer doen?