Douay Rheims Original ↷
Genesis 34 📜 📕 ↷
Revenge of Dinah's Brothers
13 Jacob's sons answered Sichem & his father in guile, being wrath for the deflowering of their sister:📜💬📚
14 We can not do that which you demand, nor give our sister to an uncircumcised person; which with us is an unlawful & abominable thing.📜💬📚
15 But in this order we may be considerate, if you will be like to us, and all the man sex among you be circumcised:📜💬📚
16 then will we give and take mutually your daughters, and ours: and we will dwell with you, and will be one people:📜💬📚
17 but if you will not be circumcised, we will take our daughter, and depart.📜💬📚
18 The offer pleased Hemor and Sichem his son:📜💬📚
19 neither did the young man make delay, but forthwith fulfilled that which was demanded: for he loved the wench exceedingly, and he was the greatest man in all his father's house.📜💬📚
20 And going into the gate of the city, they spake to the people:📜💬📚
21 These men are men of peace, and are willing to dwell with us: let them occupy in the land, and till it, which being large and wide doth lack men to till it: their daughters we shall take to wife, and ours we will give to them.📜💬📚
22 One thing there is for the which so great a good is deferred: If we circumcise our man sex, following the rite of the nation.📜💬📚
23 And their substance, and cattle, and all things that they possess, shall be ours: only in this let us condescend, and dwelling together we shall make one people.📜💬📚
24 And they all assented, and circumcised all the man sex.📜💬📚
25 And behold the third day, when the grief of the wounds is most painful: Jacob's two sons Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dina, taking their swords, entered into the city boldly: and killing all the man sex,📜💬📚
26 murdered withal Hemor and Sichem, taking away Dina their sister out of Sichem's house.📜💬📚
27 When they were gone forth, the other sons of Jacob ran in upon them that were slain, and spoiled the city in revenge of the rape.📜💬📚
28 And wasting all things that were in their houses and fields, their sheep and herds, and asses,📜💬📚
29 their little ones also, and their wives they led away captive.📜💬📚
30 Which things when they had boldly achieved, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me odious to the Chanaanites, and Pherezites, the inhabiters of this land. We are few: they being gathered together will strike me; and I and my house shall be destroyed.📜💬📚
31 They answered: What? Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?📜💬📚
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