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         <div class="label">34</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Dinah and the Shechemites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.34.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.34.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and raped her. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.34.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.34.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And Shechem said to his father Hamor, &#8220;Get me this girl as my wife.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.34.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.34.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Jacob heard that his daughter Dinah had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his livestock; so he did nothing about it until they came home.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.34.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.34.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Shechem&#8217;s father Hamor went out to talk with Jacob. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.34.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Meanwhile, Jacob&#8217;s sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked and furious, because Shechem had done an outrageous thing in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">against</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel by sleeping with Jacob&#8217;s daughter&#8212;a thing that should not be done.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.34.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.34.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Hamor said to them, &#8220;My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.34.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.34.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You can settle among us; the land is open to you. Live in it, trade</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">move about freely</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 21</span></span></span><span class="content"> in it, and acquire property in it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.34.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.34.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Shechem said to Dinah&#8217;s father and brothers, &#8220;Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.34.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Make the price for the bride and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I&#8217;ll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the young woman as my wife.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.34.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.34.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob&#8217;s sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.34.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They said to them, &#8220;We can&#8217;t do such a thing; we can&#8217;t give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.34.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">We will enter into an agreement with you on one condition only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.34.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We&#8217;ll settle among you and become one people with you. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.34.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we&#8217;ll take our sister and go.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.34.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.34.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.34.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The young man, who was the most honored of all his father&#8217;s family, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob&#8217;s daughter. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.34.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city to speak to the men of their city. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.34.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;These men are friendly toward us,&#8221; they said. &#8220;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. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.34.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But the men will agree to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised, as they themselves are. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.34.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Won&#8217;t their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours? So let us agree to their terms, and they will settle among us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.34.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.34.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">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.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.34.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.34.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob&#8217;s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah&#8217;s brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.34.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem&#8217;s house and left. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.34.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:27 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">because</span></span></span><span class="content"> their sister had been defiled. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.34.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.34.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.34.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.34.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, &#8220;You have brought trouble on me by making me obnoxious 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.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.34.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.34.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But they replied, &#8220;Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">123</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 123</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song of ascents.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.123.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I lift up my eyes to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.123.1"><span class="content">to you who sit enthroned in heaven.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.123.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.123.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.123.2"><span class="content">as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.123.2"><span class="content">so our eyes look to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.123.2"><span class="content">till he shows us his mercy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.123.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.123.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Have mercy on us, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have mercy on us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.123.3"><span class="content">for we have endured no end of contempt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.123.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.123.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">We have endured no end</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.123.4"><span class="content">of ridicule from the arrogant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.123.4"><span class="content">of contempt from the proud.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">124</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 124</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song of ascents. Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.124.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">If the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had not been on our side&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.124.1"><span class="content">let Israel say&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.124.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.124.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">if the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had not been on our side</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.124.2"><span class="content">when people attacked us,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.124.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.124.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">they would have swallowed us alive</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.124.3"><span class="content">when their anger flared against us;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.124.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.124.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">the flood would have engulfed us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.124.4"><span class="content">the torrent would have swept over us,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.124.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.124.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">the raging waters</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.124.5"><span class="content">would have swept us away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.124.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.124.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.124.6"><span class="content">who has not let us be torn by their teeth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.124.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.124.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">We have escaped like a bird</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.124.7"><span class="content">from the fowler&#8217;s snare;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.124.7"><span class="content">the snare has been broken,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.124.7"><span class="content">and we have escaped.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.124.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.124.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Our help is in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.124.8"><span class="content">the Maker of heaven and earth.</span></span></div>
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