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Genesis 34:1-2, “Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her and lay with her, and violated her.”



Genesis 34:3-10, “Shechem soul was strongly attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman and spoke kindly to the young woman. So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, ‘Get me this young woman as a wife.’ And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. Now his sons were with his livestock in the field; so Jacob held his peace until they came.



Then Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him. And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved and very angry, because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing which ought not to be done.”



But Hamor spoke with them, saying, ‘The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. And make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to yourselves. So you shall dwell with us, and the land shall be before you. Dwell and trade in it, and acquire possessions for yourselves in it.’”



Aside from the fact Hamor has completely excused his son’s behavior going so far as to be an enabler, what he’s proposing to Jacob and his sons is not a good dynamic. Hamor is proposing a full assimilation of their two families. If Jacob conceded the blending of his seed with this Canaanite tribe the Messianic lineage would have been irreparably tainted.



Genesis 34:11-13, “Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and her brothers, ‘Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give. Ask me ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give according to what you say to me; but give me the young woman as a wife.’ But the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father, and spoke deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.”



Shechem is desperate to have Dinah as his wife, so much so that he presents her brothers with a blank check - a side deal of sorts. Where as the previous verses document a proposed agreement between Hamor and Jacob, this is a deal Shechem is trying to strike with Jacob’s sons. This implication being Jacob had already rejected Hamor’s proposal.

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