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Genesis (Old Testament)
34:1 - And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
34:2 - And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
34:3 - And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
34:4 - And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
34:5 - And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.
34:6 - And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.
34:7 - And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter: which thing ought not to be done.
34:8 - And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
34:9 - And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
34:10 - And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
34:11 - And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.
34:12 - Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
34:13 - And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
34:14 - And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
34:15 - But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
34:16 - Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
34:17 - But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
34:18 - And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
34:19 - And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honorable than all the house of his father.
34:20 - And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
34:21 - These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
34:22 - Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
34:23 - Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
34:24 - And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
34:25 - And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
34:26 - And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.
34:27 - The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
34:28 - They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
34:29 - And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
34:30 - And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
34:31 - And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

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Genesis (Old Testament)
1:1 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 - And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
1:3 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
1:4 - And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
1:5 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
1:6 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
1:7 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
1:8 - And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
1:9 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
1:10 - And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
1:11 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
1:12 - And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
1:13 - And the evening and the morning were the third day.
1:14 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
1:15 - And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
1:16 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
1:17 - And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
1:18 - And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
1:19 - And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
1:20 - And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
1:21 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
1:22 - And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
1:23 - And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
1:24 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
1:25 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
1:26 - And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
1:27 - So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
1:28 - And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
1:29 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
1:30 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
1:31 - And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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Genesis (Old Testament)
2:1 - Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2:2 - And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
2:3 - And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
2:4 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
2:5 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
2:6 - But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
2:7 - And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
2:8 - And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
2:9 - And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
2:10 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
2:11 - The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
2:12 - And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
2:13 - And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
2:14 - And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
2:15 - And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
2:16 - And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
2:17 - But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
2:18 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
2:19 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
2:20 - And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
2:21 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
2:22 - And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
2:23 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
2:24 - Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
2:25 - And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

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