Liber Genesis

Genesis, chapter 34, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 34 Vulgate

   1 Egressa est autem Dina filia, quam Lia pepererat Iacob, ut videret filias regionis illius.
   2 Quam cum vidisset Sichem filius Hemmor Hevaei principis terrae illius, adamavit eam et rapuit; et dormivit cum illa, vi opprimens illam.
   3 Et conglutinata est anima eius cum ea, et amavit puellam et locutus est ad cor eius.
   4 Dixitque ad Hemmor patrem suum: "Accipe mihi puellam hanc coniugem"
   5 Cum audisset Iacob quod violasset Dinam filiam suam, absentibus filiis et in pastu pecorum occupatis, siluit, donec redirent.
   6 Egresso autem Hemmor patre Sichem, ut loqueretur ad Iacob,
   7 ecce filii Iacob veniebant de agro, auditoque, quod acciderat, contristati et irati sunt valde, eo quod foedam rem esset operatus in Israel et, violata filia Iacob, rem illicitam perpetrasset.
   8 Locutus est itaque Hemmor ad eos: "Sichem filii mei adhaesit anima filiae vestrae; date eam illi uxorem,
   9 et iungamus vicissim conubia: filias vestras tradite nobis et filias nostras accipite vobis.
   10 Et habitate nobiscum; terra in potestate vestra est: manete, perambulate et possidete eam"
   11 Sed et Sichem ad patrem et ad fratres eius ait: "Inveniam gratiam coram vobis et, quaecumque statueritis, dabo.
   12 Augete mihi valde dotem et munera; libens tribuam, quod petieritis. Tantum date mihi puellam hanc uxorem"
   13 Responderunt filii Iacob Sichem et Hemmor patri eius in dolo ob stuprum sororis:
   14 "Non possumus facere, quod petitis, dare sororem nostram homini incircumciso, opprobrium enim esset nobis.
   15 In hoc tantum valebimus acquiescere vobis: si esse volueritis similes nostri, circumcidatur in vobis omne masculini sexus;
   16 tunc dabimus et accipiemus mutuo filias nostras ac vestras et habitabimus vobiscum erimusque unus populus.
   17 Si autem circumcidi nolueritis, tollemus filiam nostram et recedemus"
   18 Placuit oblatio eorum Hemmor et Sichem filio eius,
   19 nec distulit adulescens quin statim, quod petebatur, expleret; amabat enim filiam Iacob valde, et ipse erat inclitus in omni domo patris sui.
   20 Ingressique portam urbis, Hemmor et Sichem filius eius locuti sunt ad viros civitatis suae:
   21 "Viri isti pacifici sunt erga nos; maneant in terra et perambulent eam, quae spatiosa et lata est eis; filias eorum accipiemus uxores et nostras illis dabimus.
   22 Tantum in hoc valebunt viri acquiescere nobis, ut maneant nobiscum et efficiamur unus populus, si circumcidamus masculos nostros ritum gentis imitantes;
   23 et pecora et substantia et armenta eorum nostra erunt. Tantum in hoc acquiescamus, et habitabunt nobiscum"
   24 Assensique sunt omnes, circumcisis cunctis maribus, qui egrediebantur e porta civitatis suae.
   25 Et ecce, die tertio, quando gravissimus vulnerum dolor est, arreptis duo filii Iacob Simeon et Levi fratres Dinae gladiis, ingressi sunt urbem securi; interfectisque omnibus masculis,
   26 Hemmor et Sichem pariter necaverunt, tollentes Dinam de domo Sichem sororem suam.
   27 Filii Iacob irruerunt super occisos, et depopulati sunt urbem in ultionem stupri.
   28 Oves eorum et armenta et asinos cunctaque, quae in civitate et in agris erant, tulerunt.
   29 Omnes opes eorum, parvulos quoque et uxores duxerunt captivas et diripuerunt omnia, quae in domibus erant.
   30 Iacob autem dixit ad Simeon et Levi: "Turbastis me et odiosum fecistis me Chananaeis et Pherezaeis habitatoribus terrae huius. Nos pauci sumus; illi congregati percutient me, et delebor ego et domus mea"
   31 Responderunt: "Numquid ut scorto abuti debuere sorore nostra?"

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
   2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
   3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
   4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
   5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.
   6 ¶ And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.
   7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
   8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
   9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
   10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
   11 And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.
   12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
   13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
   14 And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
   15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
   16 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
   17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
   18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
   19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.
   20 ¶ And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
   21 These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
   22 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
   23 Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of their's be our's? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
   24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
   25 ¶ And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
   26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.
   27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
   28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
   29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
   30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
   31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?