Genesis 34

Question 1

Genesis 34:1

Answer 1

Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land.

Question 2

Genesis 34:2

Answer 2

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and violated her.

Question 3

Genesis 34:3

Answer 3

His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to her.

Question 4

Genesis 34:4

Answer 4

And Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as my wife.”

Question 5

Genesis 34:5

Answer 5

When Jacob heard that his daughter Dinah had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his livestock; so he kept quiet about it until they came home.

Question 6

Genesis 34:6

Answer 6

Then Shechem’s father Hamor went out to talk with Jacob.

Question 7

Genesis 34:7

Answer 7

Now Jacob’s sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter - a thing that should not be done.

Question 8

Genesis 34:8

Answer 8

But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.

Question 9

Genesis 34:9

Answer 9

Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.

Question 10

Genesis 34:10

Answer 10

You can settle among us; the land is open to you. Live in it, trade in it, and acquire property in it.”

Question 11

Genesis 34:11

Answer 11

Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask.

Question 12

Genesis 34:12

Answer 12

Make the price for the bride and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I’ll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the girl as my wife.”

Question 13

Genesis 34:13

Answer 13

Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob’s sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor.

Question 14

Genesis 34:14

Answer 14

They said to them, “We can’t do such a thing; we can’t give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us.

Question 15

Genesis 34:15

Answer 15

We will give our consent to you on one condition only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males.

Question 16

Genesis 34:16

Answer 16

Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We’ll settle among you and become one people with you.

Question 17

Genesis 34:17

Answer 17

But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we’ll take our sister and go.”

Question 18

Genesis 34:18

Answer 18

Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.

Question 19

Genesis 34:19

Answer 19

The young man, who was the most honored of all his father’s household, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.

Question 20

Genesis 34:20

Answer 20

So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city to speak to their fellow townsmen.

Question 21

Genesis 34:21

Answer 21

“These men are friendly toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and trade in it; the land has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters and they can marry ours.

Question 22

Genesis 34:22

Answer 22

But the men will consent to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised, as they themselves are.

Question 23

Genesis 34:23

Answer 23

Won’t their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours? So let us give our consent to them, and they will settle among us.”

Question 24

Genesis 34:24

Answer 24

All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.

Question 25

Genesis 34:25

Answer 25

Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male.

Question 26

Genesis 34:26

Answer 26

They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem’s house and left.

Question 27

Genesis 34:27

Answer 27

The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where their sister had been defiled.

Question 28

Genesis 34:28

Answer 28

They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields.

Question 29

Genesis 34:29

Answer 29

They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.

Question 30

Genesis 34:30

Answer 30

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

Question 31

Genesis 34:31

Answer 31

But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”