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Verse 1

Dina ye doughter of Lea, which she bare vnto Iacob, wente out to beholde the doughters of the londe.

Verse 2

Whan Sichem the sonne of Hemor the Heuite (which was lorde of the lode) sawe her, he toke her, and laye with her, and forced her,

Verse 3

and his hert hanged vpon her, and he loued ye damsell, and talked louyngly with her,

Verse 4

and spake to his father Hemor: Get me this mayden to wife.

Verse 5

And Iacob vnderstode, that Dina his doughter was defyled, and his sonnes were with the catell in the felde, and Iacob helde his tonge tyll they came.

Verse 6

Then Hemor the father of Sichem wente forth vnto Iacob to comen with him.

Verse 7

In the meane season came Iacobs sonnes from ye felde. And whan they herde it, it greued the men, and they were very wroth, that he had wrought foly in Israel, and lyen with Iacobs doughter: for so was not the vse to do.

Verse 8

Then comened Hemor with the, and sayde: My sonne Sichems hert longeth for youre doughter, O geue hir him to wife:

Verse 9

make frendshipe with vs, geue vs youre doughters, and take ye oure doughters,

Verse 10

and dwell with vs, the londe shall be open vnto you, dwell and occupie, and haue youre possessions therin.

Verse 11

And Sichem sayde vnto hir father and brethren: Let me fynde grace with you: loke what ye appoynte me, I will geue it:

Verse 12

requyre the dowrye and gift of me hardely, I wyll geue it acordinge as ye wyll axe, onely geue me the damsell to wife.

Verse 13

Then Iacobs sonnes answered Sichem and Hemor his father (and spake disceatfully, because their sister Dina was defyled)

Verse 14

& sayde vnto them: That can we not do, to geue oure sister to an vncircumcided man: for that were a shame vnto vs.

Verse 15

Neuertheles we wyll consente vnto you, yf ye wylbe like vnto vs, and be circumcided as many as are males amonge you:

Verse 16

then will we geue you oure doughters, and take youre doughters vnto vs, and dwell with you, and be one people.

Verse 17

But yf ye wyll not herken vnto vs, to be circumcided, then wyl we take oure doughter, and go oure waye.

Verse 18

These wordes pleased Hemor and his sonne wel,

Verse 19

and the yonge man deferde not to do the same, for he had lust to Iacobs doughter: and he was holden in honoure aboue all in his fathers house.

Verse 20

Then came Hemor and Sichem his sonne vnder ye gate of cite, and comened with the citisens of the cite, and saide:

Verse 21

These men are peaceable with vs, and will dwell in the lande and occupye: now is the londe brode of both the sydes, we wyl take their doughters vnto vs, and geue them oure doughters.

Verse 22

But then wyll they consent vnto vs, to dwell by vs, and to be one people with vs, yf we circumcyse all the men children amonge vs, like as they are circumcysed:

Verse 23

their catell and goodes, and all that they haue, shalbe ours, yf we consent vnto them, that they maye dwel with vs.

Verse 24

And they herkened vnto Hemor and Sichem his sonne, as many as wente out and in at ye gate of his cite, and circumcided all the males, that wente out and in at his cite.

Verse 25

And vpon the thirde daye (whan it was panefull to them) the two sonnes of Iacob Simeon and Leui Dinas brethren, toke euery man his swerde, and wente boldly in to the cite, and slew all the males,

Verse 26

and slew Hemor also and Sichem his sonne with the edge of the swerde, and toke their sister Dina out of Sichems house, and wente their waye.

Verse 27

Then came Iacobs sonnes ouer the slayne, and spoyled the cite (because they had defyled their sister)

Verse 28

and toke their shepe, oxen, Asses, and what so euer was in the cite and in the londe,

Verse 29

and all maner of goodes: All their children and wyues toke they captyue, and spoyled all yt was in the houses.

Verse 30

And Iacob sayde vnto Symeon and Leui: Ye haue brought it so to passe, yt I stynke before the inhabiters of this lande, ye Cananites and Pheresites, & I am but a small nombre: Yf they gather them selues now together against me, they shal slaye me, so shal I be destroyed with my house.

Verse 31

But they answered: Shulde they the deale with oure sister as with an whoore?

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