¹ Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had by Jacob, went out to see the women of that country.

² And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had connection with her.

³ Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.

⁴ And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.

⁵ Now Jacob had word of what Shechem had done to his daughter; but his sons were in the fields with the cattle, and Jacob said nothing till they came.

⁶ Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, came out to have a talk with Jacob.

⁷ Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done.

⁸ But Hamor said to them, Shechem, my son, is full of desire for your daughter: will you then give her to him for a wife?

⁹ And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

¹⁰ Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.

¹¹ And Shechem said to her father and her brothers, If you will give ear to my request, whatever you say I will give to you.

¹² However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.

¹³ But the sons of Jacob gave a false answer to Shechem and Hamor his father, because of what had been done to Dinah their sister.

¹⁴ And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us:

¹⁵ But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;

¹⁶ Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on living with you as one people.

¹⁷ But if you will not undergo circumcision as we say, then we will take our daughter and go.

¹⁸ And their words were pleasing to Hamor and his son Shechem.

¹⁹ And without loss of time the young man did as they said, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was the noblest of his father's house.

²⁰ Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town,

²¹ It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.

²² But these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to become one people, only on the condition that every male among us undergoes circumcision as they have done.

²³ Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.

²⁴ Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision.

²⁵ But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put all the males to death.

²⁶ And Hamor and his son they put to death with the sword, and they took Dinah from Shechem's house and went away.

²⁷ And the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded and made waste the town because of what had been done to their sister;

²⁸ They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fields,

²⁹ And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.

³⁰ And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

³¹ But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?

¹ Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

² Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

³ He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

⁴ to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.

⁵ Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

⁶ The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.

⁷ There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.

⁸ Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.

⁹ Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."

¹⁰ Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

¹¹ So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.

¹² Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

¹³ Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

¹⁴ Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

¹⁵ for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.

¹⁶ I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.

¹⁷ Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."

¹⁸ Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.