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And his soul clung to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly[a] to the girl. So Shechem said to Hamor his father, saying, “Get this girl for me as a wife.”

And Jacob heard that Dinah his daughter had been defiled, but his sons were with his flocks in the field. And Jacob kept silent until they came.

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  1. Genesis 34:3 Literally “to the heart”

His heart was drawn to Dinah(A) daughter of Jacob;(B) he loved(C) the young woman and spoke tenderly(D) to her. And Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as my wife.”(E)

When Jacob heard that his daughter Dinah had been defiled,(F) his sons were in the fields with his livestock; so he did nothing about it until they came home.

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