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Genesis 34 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:1 - And Dina, the daughter of Lea, whom she bore to Jacob, went forth to observe the daughters of the inhabitants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:2 - And Sychem the son of Emmor the [fn]Evite, the ruler of the land, saw her, and took her and lay with her, and humbled her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:3 - And he was attached to the soul of Dina the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and he spoke [fn]kindly to the damsel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:4 - Sychem spoke to Emmor his father, saying, Take for me this damsel to wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:5 - And Jacob heard that the son of Emmor had defiled Dina his daughter (now his sons were with his cattle in the plain). And Jacob was silent until they came.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:6 - And Emmor the father of Sychem went forth to Jacob, to speak to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:7 - And the sons of Jacob came from the plain; and when they heard, the men were deeply pained, and it was very grievous to them, because the man wrought folly in Israel, having lain with the daughter of Jacob, and so it [fn]must not be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:8 - And Emmor spoke to them, saying, Sychem my son has chosen in his heart your daughter; give her therefore to him for a wife,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:9 - and intermarry with us. Give us your daughters, and take our daughters for your sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:10 - And dwell in the midst of us; and, behold, the land is spacious before you, dwell in it, and trade, and get possessions in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:11 - And Sychem said to her father and to her brothers, I would find grace before you, and we will give whatever ye shall name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:12 - Multiply your demand of dowry very much, and I will give accordingly as ye shall say to me, only ye shall give me this damsel for a wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:13 - And the sons of Jacob answered to Sychem and Emmor his father craftily, and spoke to them, because they had defiled Dina their sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:14 - And Symeon and Levi, the brothers of Dina, said to them, We shall not be able to do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for it is a reproach to us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:15 - Only on these terms will we conform to you, and dwell among you, if ye also will be as we are, in that every male of you be circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:16 - And we will give our daughters to you, and we will take of your daughters for wives to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will be as one race.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:17 - But if ye will not hearken to us to be circumcised, we will take our daughter and depart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:18 - And the words pleased Emmor, and Sychem the son of Emmor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:19 - And the young man delayed not to do this [fn]thing, for he was much attached to Jacob's daughter, and he was the most honourable of all in his father's house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:20 - And Emmor and Sychem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:21 - These men are peaceable, let them dwell with us upon the land, and let them trade in it, and behold the land is extensive before them; we will take their daughters to us for wives, and we will give them our daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:22 - Only on these terms will the men conform to us to dwell with us so as to be one people, if every male of us be circumcised, as they also are circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:23 - And shall not their cattle and their [fn]herds, and their possessions, be ours? only in this let us conform to them, and they will dwell with us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24 - And all that went in at the gate of their city hearkened to Emmor and Sychem his son, and they were circumcised in the flesh of their foreskin every male.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:25 - And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, the two sons of Jacob, Symeon and Levi, Dina's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city securely, and slew every male.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:26 - And they slew Emmor and Sychem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dina out of the house of Sychem, and went forth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27 - But the sons of Jacob came upon the [fn]wounded, and ravaged the city wherein they had defiled Dina their sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:28 - And their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses they took, and all things whatsoever were in the city, and whatsoever were in the plain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:29 - And they took captive all the persons of them, and all their store, and their wives, and plundered both whatever things there were in the city, and whatever things there were in the houses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:30 - And Jacob said to Symeon and Levi, Ye have made me hateful so that I should be evil to all the inhabitants of the land, both among the Chananites and the Pherezites, and I am few in number; they will gather themselves against me and cut me in pieces, and I shall be utterly destroyed, and my house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:31 - And they said, Nay, but shall they treat our sister as an harlot?
BES Footnotes
Alex. the Chorrhæan.
Lit. spoke according to the heart of the damsel—to her. A literal version of the Hebrew.
Lit. shall not be.
Gr. word.
Gr. quadrupeds.
Or, slain, which seems frequently the sense in LXX.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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