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Dinah and Shechem

34 Dinah, Jacob’s daughter by Leah, went out to see the young women of the land. Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the chief of that part of the land, saw her and took her, lay down with her, and humiliated her.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 34:2 The three Hebrew verbs could be rendered by the one English word rape, but the text uses more euphemistic terms here and elsewhere in the chapter.