So his heart clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob: and he loved the maid, and [a]spake kindly to the maid.

Then said Shechem to his father Hamor, saying, [b]Get me this maid to wife.

(Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter, and his sons were with his cattle in the field: therefore Jacob held his peace, until they were come.)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 34:3 Hebrew, spake to the heart of the maid.
  2. Genesis 34:4 This proveth that the consent of parents is requisite in marriage, seeing the very Infidels did also observe it as a thing necessary.

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