Genesis 34:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

But if ye will not hearken vnto vs to be circumcised, then will we take our daughter and depart.

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  • Gen 34:6-16
    11 verses
    86%

    6Then Hamor the father of Shechem went out vnto Iaakob to commune with him.

    7And whe the sonnes of Iaakob were come out of the fielde and heard it, it grieued the men, & they were very angry, because he had wrought villenie in Israel, in that he had lyen with Iaakobs daughter: which thing ought not to be done.

    8And Hamor communed with them, saying, the soule of my sonne Shechem longeth for your daughter: giue her him to wife, I pray you.

    9So make affinitie with vs: giue your daughters vnto vs, and take our daughters vnto you,

    10And ye shall dwell with vs, and the lande shalbe before you: dwell, and doe your businesse in it, and haue your possessions therein.

    11Shechem also said vnto her father & vnto her brethren, Let me finde fauour in your eyes, and I will giue whatsoeuer ye shall appoint me.

    12Aske of me abundantly both dowrie and giftes, and I will giue as ye appoint me, so that ye giue me the maide to wife.

    13Then the sonnes of Iaakob answered Shechem and Hamor his father, talking deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

    14And they said vnto them, We can not do this thing, to giue our sister to an vncircumcised man: for that were a reproofe vnto vs.

    15But in this will we consent vnto you, if ye will be as we are, that euery man childe among you be circumcised:

    16Then will we giue our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to vs, and will dwell with you, and be one people.

  • Gen 34:18-24
    7 verses
    82%

    18Nowe their wordes pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamors sonne.

    19And the yong man deferd not to doe the thing because he loued Iaakobs daughter: he was also the most set by of all his fathers house.

    20Then Hamor and Shechem his Sonne went vnto the gate of their citie, and communed with the men of their citie, saying,

    21These men are peaceable with vs: and that they may dwell in the land, and doe their affaires therin (for behold, the land hath roume ynough for them) let vs take their daughters to wiues, and giue them our daughters.

    22Onely herein will the men consent vnto vs for to dwell with vs, and to be one people, if all the men children among vs be circumcised as they are circumcised.

    23Shall not their flockes and their substance and all their cattell be ours? onely let vs consent herein vnto them, and they will dwell with vs.

    24And vnto Hamor, and Shechem his sonne hearkened all that went out of the gate of his citie: and all the men children were circumcised, euen all that went out of the gate of his citie.

  • 4Then said Shechem to his father Hamor, saying, Get me this maide to wife.

  • 26They slewe also Hamor and Shechem his sonne with the edge of the sword, & tooke Dinah out of Shechems house, and went their way.

  • 8Neuertheles if the woman wil not followe thee, then shalt thou bee discharged of this mine othe: onely bring not my sonne thither againe.

  • 30And that we would not giue our daughters to the people of the lande, neither take their daughters for our sonnes.

  • 2Whome when Shechem the sonne of Hamor the Hiuite lorde of that countrey sawe, hee tooke her, and lay with her, and defiled her.