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 Now the years of Sarah's life were a hundred and twenty-seven.

² And Sarah's death took place in Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan: and Abraham went into his house, weeping and sorrowing for Sarah.

³ And Abraham came from his dead and said to the children of Heth,

⁴ I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.

⁵ And in answer the children of Heth said to Abraham,

⁶ My lord, truly you are a great chief among us; take the best of our resting-places for your dead; not one of us will keep back from you a place where you may put your dead to rest.

⁷ And Abraham got up and gave honour to the children of Heth, the people of that land.

⁸ And he said to them, If you will let me put my dead to rest here, make a request for me to Ephron, the son of Zohar,

⁹ That he will give me the hollow in the rock named Machpelah, which is his property at the end of his field; let him give it to me for its full price as a resting-place for my dead among you.

¹⁰ Now Ephron was seated among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite gave Abraham his answer in the hearing of the children of Heth, and of all those who came into his town, saying,

¹¹ No, my lord, I will give you the field with the hollow in the rock; before all the children of my people will I give it to you for a resting-place for your dead.

¹² And Abraham went down on his face before the people of the land.

¹³ And Abraham said to Ephron, in the hearing of the people of the land, If only you will give ear to me, I will give you the price of the field; take it, and let me put my dead to rest there.

¹⁴ So Ephron said to Abraham,

¹⁵ My lord, give ear to me: the value of the land is four hundred shekels; what is that between me and you? so put your dead to rest there.

¹⁶ And Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the hearing of the children of Heth, and gave him four hundred shekels in current money.

¹⁷ So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it,

¹⁸ Became the property of Abraham before the eyes of the children of Heth and of all who came into the town.

¹⁹ Then Abraham put Sarah his wife to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, that is, Hebron in the land of Canaan.

²⁰ And the field and the hollow rock were handed over to Abraham as his property by the children of Heth.