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One day Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the Canaanite women.
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When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who was chief of that region, saw her, he took her and raped her.
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But he found the young woman so attractive that he fell in love with her and tried to win her affection.
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He told his father, "I want you to get Dinah for me as my wife."
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Jacob learned that his daughter had been disgraced, but because his sons were out in the fields with his livestock, he did nothing until they came back.
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Shechem's father Hamor went out to talk with Jacob,
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just as Jacob's sons were coming in from the fields. When they heard about it, they were shocked and furious that Shechem had done such a thing and had insulted the people of Israel by raping Jacob's daughter.
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Hamor said to him, "My son Shechem has fallen in love with your daughter; please let him marry her.
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Let us make an agreement that there will be intermarriage between our people and yours.
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Then you may stay here in our country with us; you may live anywhere you wish, trade freely, and own property."
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Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, "Do me this favor, and I will give you whatever you want.
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Tell me what presents you want, and set the payment for the bride as high as you wish; I will give you whatever you ask, if you will only let me marry her."
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Because Shechem had disgraced their sister Dinah, Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor in a deceitful way.
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They said to him, "We cannot let our sister marry a man who is not circumcised; that would be a disgrace for us.
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We can agree only on the condition that you become like us by circumcising all your males.
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Then we will agree to intermarriage. We will settle among you and become one people with you.
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But if you will not accept our terms and be circumcised, we will take her and leave."
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These terms seemed fair to Hamor and his son Shechem,
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and the young man lost no time in doing what was suggested, because he was in love with Jacob's daughter. He was the most important member of his family.
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Hamor and his son Shechem went to the meeting place at the city gate and spoke to the people of the town:
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"These men are friendly; let them live in the land with us and travel freely. The land is large enough for them also. Let us marry their daughters and give them ours in marriage.
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But these men will agree to live among us and be one people with us only on the condition that we circumcise all our males, as they are circumcised.
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Won't all their livestock and everything else they own be ours? So let us agree that they can live among us."
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All the citizens of the city agreed with what Hamor and Shechem proposed, and all the males were circumcised.
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Three days later, when the men were still sore from their circumcision, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, took their swords, went into the city without arousing suspicion, and killed all the men,
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including Hamor and his son Shechem. Then they took Dinah from Shechem's house and left.
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After the slaughter Jacob's other sons looted the town to take revenge for their sister's disgrace.
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They took the flocks, the cattle, the donkeys, and everything else in the city and in the fields.
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They took everything of value, captured all the women and children, and carried off everything in the houses.
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Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have gotten me into trouble; now the Canaanites, the Perizzites, and everybody else in the land will hate me. I do not have many men; if they all band together against me and attack me, our whole family will be destroyed."
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But they answered, "We cannot let our sister be treated like a common whore."
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God said to Jacob, "Go to Bethel at once, and live there. Build an altar there to me, the God who appeared to you when you were running away from your brother Esau."
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So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that you have; purify yourselves and put on clean clothes.
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We are going to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with me everywhere I have gone."
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So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that they had and also the earrings that they were wearing. He buried them beneath the oak tree near Shechem.
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When Jacob and his sons started to leave, great fear fell on the people of the nearby towns, and they did not pursue them.
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Jacob came with all his people to Luz, which is now known as Bethel, in the land of Canaan.
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He built an altar there and named the place for the God of Bethel, because God had revealed himself to him there when he was running away from his brother.
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Rebecca's nurse Deborah died and was buried beneath the oak south of Bethel. So it was named "Oak of Weeping."
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When Jacob returned from Mesopotamia, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
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God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but from now on it will be Israel." So God named him Israel.
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And God said to him, "I am Almighty God. Have many children. Nations will be descended from you, and you will be the ancestor of kings.
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I will give you the land which I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, and I will also give it to your descendants after you."
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There, where God had spoken to him, Jacob set up a memorial stone and consecrated it by pouring wine and olive oil on it.
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He named the place Bethel.
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Jacob and his family left Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, the time came for Rachel to have her baby, and she was having difficult labor.
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When her labor pains were at their worst, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, Rachel; it's another boy."
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But she was dying, and as she breathed her last, she named her son Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
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When Rachel died, she was buried beside the road to Ephrath, now known as Bethlehem.
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Jacob set up a memorial stone there, and it still marks Rachel's grave to this day.
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Jacob moved on and set up his camp on the other side of the tower of Eder.
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While Jacob was living in that land, Reuben had sexual intercourse with Bilhah, one of his father's concubines; Jacob heard about it and was furious. Jacob had twelve sons.
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The sons of Leah were Reuben (Jacob's oldest son), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
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The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
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The sons of Rachel's slave Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
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The sons of Leah's slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These sons were born in Mesopotamia.
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Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived.
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Isaac lived to be a hundred and eighty years old
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and died at a ripe old age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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These are the descendants of Esau, also called Edom.
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Esau married Canaanite women: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite; Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah son of Zibeon the Hivite;
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and Basemath, the daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.
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Adah bore Eliphaz; Basemath bore Reuel;
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and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. All these sons were born to Esau in the land of Canaan.
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Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the people of his house, along with all his livestock and all the possessions he had gotten in the land of Canaan, and went away from his brother Jacob to another land.
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He left because the land where he and Jacob were living was not able to support them; they had too much livestock and could no longer stay together.
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So Esau lived in the hill country of Edom.
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These are the descendants of Esau, the ancestor of the Edomites.
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Esau's wife Adah bore him one son, Eliphaz, and Eliphaz had five sons: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. And by another wife, Timna, he had one more son, Amalek. Esau's wife Basemath bore him one son, Reuel, and Reuel had four sons: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
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Esau's wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah son of Zibeon, bore him three sons: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
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These are the tribes descended from Esau. Esau's first son Eliphaz was the ancestor of the following tribes: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,
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Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. These were all descendants of Esau's wife Adah.
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Esau's son Reuel was the ancestor of the following tribes: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were all descendants of Esau's wife Basemath.
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The following tribes were descended from Esau by his wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
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All these tribes were descended from Esau.
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The original inhabitants of the land of Edom were divided into tribes which traced their ancestry to the following descendants of Seir, a Horite: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
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Lotan was the ancestor of the clans of Hori and Heman. (Lotan had a sister named Timna.)
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Shobal was the ancestor of the clans of Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
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Zibeon had two sons, Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness when he was taking care of his father's donkeys.)
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Anah was the father of Dishon, who was the ancestor of the clans of Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. Anah also had a daughter named Oholibamah.
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Ezer was the ancestor of the clans of Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
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Dishan was the ancestor of the clans of Uz and Aran.
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These are the Horite tribes in the land of Edom: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
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Before there were any kings in Israel, the following kings ruled the land of Edom in succession: Bela son of Beor from Dinhabah Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah Husham from the region of Teman Hadad son of Bedad from Avith (he defeated the Midianites in a battle in the country of Moab) Samlah from Masrekah Shaul from Rehoboth-on-the-River Baal Hanan son of Achbor Hadad from Pau (his wife was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred and granddaughter of Mezahab)
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Esau was the ancestor of the following Edomite tribes: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, Magdiel, and Iram. The area where each of these tribes lived was known by the name of the tribe.
