Vardarbība pret Dīnu
1 Dīna, Leas meita, ko tā bija Jēkabam dzemdējusi, iznāca laukā, lai satiktos ar tās zemes meitām. 2 Un viņu ieraudzīja Šehems, hivieša Hamora dēls, tās zemes vadonis, un viņš viņu ņēma, gulēja ar viņu un pazemoja viņu. 3 Un viņa dvēsele pieķērās Dīnai, Jēkaba meitai, un viņš mīlēja meiteni un runāja ar to maigi. 4 Šehems teica savam tēvam Hamoram: “Ņem man to meitēnu par sievu!” 5 Un Jēkabs uzzināja, ka viņš padarījis nešķīstu viņa meitu Dīnu, bet viņa dēli bija laukā pie lopiem, un Jēkabs klusēja, kamēr tie pārnāk. 6 Hamors, Šehema tēvs, aizgāja pie Jēkaba, lai ar viņu runātu. 7 To uzzinājuši, no lauka pārnāca Jēkaba dēli, un viņi sadrūma un stipri dusmojās, jo viņš bija nodarījis kaunu Israēlam – gulējis ar Jēkaba meitu, bet tā nedara! 8 Un Hamors runāja ar viņiem: “Mana dēla Šehema dvēsele ir pieķērusies jūsu meitai! Dodiet jel to viņam par sievu! 9 Saprecieties ar mums: savas meitas dodiet mums un mūsu meitas ņemiet sev! 10 Dzīvojiet kopā ar mums, un visa zeme būs jūsu priekšā. Dzīvojiet, pērciet to un ņemiet sev īpašumā!” 11 Un Šehems teica viņas tēvam un viņas brāļiem: “Lai jel es gūstu jūsu vēlību, un, ko jūs man teiksiet, to es došu! 12 Prasiet man krietni daudz izpirkuma un dāvanu, un es došu, ko jūs man teiksiet, bet tikai dodiet man to meiteni par sievu!” 13 Bet Jēkaba dēli atbildēja Šehemam un Hamoram ar viltu, jo viņš bija padarījis nešķīstu viņu māsu Dīnu, 14 un viņi teica: “Mēs nevaram tā darīt – dot mūsu māsu vīram, kam priekšāda, jo tas mums ir apsmiekls! 15 Tikai šādi mēs varam jums piekrist – ja jūs kļūstat tādi paši kā mēs, ja tiek apgraizīti visi jūsu vīri! 16 Tad mēs dosim jums savas meitas, gan ņemsim sev, gan dzīvosim pie jums, un mēs būsim viena tauta. 17 Bet, ja jūs mums neklausīsiet un neapgraizīsieties, tad mēs ņemsim savu meitu un aiziesim!” 18 Un viņu vārdi patika gan Hamoram, gan Šehemam, Hamora dēlam. 19 Un puisis nevilcinājās to darīt, jo kāroja Jēkaba meitu – viņš sava tēva namā tika godāts visvairāk.
20 Hamors un viņa dēls Šehems nāca pie savas pilsētas vārtiem un runāja ar pilsētas vīriem: 21 “Tie vīri ir mums labvēlīgi, lai viņi mīt šai zemē un pērk to, un zeme, re! – varen plaša viņu priekšā! Mēs ņemsim sev par sievām viņu meitas un mūsu meitas dosim viņiem! 22 Taču tikai ar vienu nosacījumu šie vīri piekrīt dzīvot kopā ar mums – ja mēs būsim kā viena tauta, ja mēs apgraizīsim visus savus vīrus, tāpat kā viņi ir apgraizīti! 23 Viņu ganāmpulki, viņu manta un visi viņu lopi – vai tie nebūs mūsu? Tikai piekritīsim viņiem, un tie dzīvos kopā ar mums!” 24 Un Hamoram un viņa dēlam Šehemam paklausīja visi, kuri iet pa viņa pilsētas vārtiem, un tika apgraizīts ik vīrs, katrs, kas iet pa viņa pilsētas vārtiem.
Brāļi atriebj Dīnu
25 Taču trešajā dienā, kad tie cieta sāpes, notika tā – divi Jēkaba dēli, Šimons un Levī, Dīnas brāļi, ņēma savus zobenus, un viņi bez bailēm gāja uz to pilsētu un apkāva visus vīrus. 26 Viņi nokāva ar zobenu Hamoru un viņa dēlu Šehemu, un viņi paņēma Dīnu no Šehema mājas un aizgāja. 27 Jēkaba dēli nāca pār nokautajiem un izlaupīja pilsētu, jo viņu māsa bija padarīta nešķīsta. 28 Viņi paņēma visu: avis, vēršus, ēzeļus, visu, kas bija pilsētā un uz lauka, 29 un visu viņu bagātību! Visus viņu bērnus viņi sagūstīja un nolaupīja un visu, kas bija namos! 30 Tad Jēkabs teica Šimonam un Levī: “Jūs mani esat iegrūduši nepatikšanās, darījuši man kaunu pie šīs zemes iemītniekiem, kanaāniešiem un periziešiem, bet man ir maz ļaužu – nu viņi sapulcēsies pret mani un sakaus mani un būšu postā es un mans nams!” 31 Bet viņi teica: “Vai kā ar mauku viņam darīt ar mūsu māsu?!”
The Rape of Dinah
1 One day Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the Canaanite women. 2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who was chief of that region, saw her, he took her and raped her. 3 But he found the young woman so attractive that he fell in love with her and tried to win her affection. 4 He told his father, “I want you to get Dinah for me as my wife.”
5 Jacob learned that his daughter had been disgraced, but because his sons were out in the fields with his livestock, he did nothing until they came back. 6 Shechem's father Hamor went out to talk with Jacob, 7 just as Jacob's sons were coming in from the fields. When they heard about it, they were shocked and furious that Shechem had done such a thing and had insulted the people of Israel by raping Jacob's daughter. 8 Hamor said to him, “My son Shechem has fallen in love with your daughter; please let him marry her. 9 Let us make an agreement that there will be intermarriage between our people and yours. 10 Then you may stay here in our country with us; you may live anywhere you wish, trade freely, and own property.”
11 Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, “Do me this favor, and I will give you whatever you want. 12 Tell me what presents you want, and set the payment for the bride as high as you wish; I will give you whatever you ask, if you will only let me marry her.”
13 Because Shechem had disgraced their sister Dinah, Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor in a deceitful way. 14 They said to him, “We cannot let our sister marry a man who is not circumcised; that would be a disgrace for us. 15 We can agree only on the condition that you become like us by circumcising all your males. 16 Then we will agree to intermarriage. We will settle among you and become one people with you. 17 But if you will not accept our terms and be circumcised, we will take her and leave.”
18 These terms seemed fair to Hamor and his son Shechem, 19 and the young man lost no time in doing what was suggested, because he was in love with Jacob's daughter. He was the most important member of his family.
20 Hamor and his son Shechem went to the meeting place at the city gate and spoke to the people of the town: 21 “These men are friendly; let them live in the land with us and travel freely. The land is large enough for them also. Let us marry their daughters and give them ours in marriage. 22 But these men will agree to live among us and be one people with us only on the condition that we circumcise all our males, as they are circumcised. 23 Won't all their livestock and everything else they own be ours? So let us agree that they can live among us.” 24 All the citizens of the city agreed with what Hamor and Shechem proposed, and all the males were circumcised.
25 Three days later, when the men were still sore from their circumcision, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, took their swords, went into the city without arousing suspicion, and killed all the men, 26 including Hamor and his son Shechem. Then they took Dinah from Shechem's house and left. 27 After the slaughter Jacob's other sons looted the town to take revenge for their sister's disgrace. 28 They took the flocks, the cattle, the donkeys, and everything else in the city and in the fields. 29 They took everything of value, captured all the women and children, and carried off everything in the houses.
30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have gotten me into trouble; now the Canaanites, the Perizzites, and everybody else in the land will hate me. I do not have many men; if they all band together against me and attack me, our whole family will be destroyed.”
31 But they answered, “We cannot let our sister be treated like a common whore.”
