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

When Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, the leader of the region, saw her, he seized her and lay with her by force.

He was strongly attracted to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and was in love with the young woman. So he spoke affectionately to her.

Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this young woman for a wife.”

Meanwhile, Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah; but since his sons were out in the field with his livestock, Jacob kept quiet until they came home.

Now Hamor, the father of Shechem, went out to discuss the matter with Jacob, just as Jacob’s sons were coming in from the field. When they heard the news, the men were indignant and extremely angry. Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter; such a thing is not done.

Hamor appealed to them, saying: “My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

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

"Thus you can live among us. The land is open before you. Settle and move about freely in it and acquire holdings here.”

Then Shechem appealed to Dinah’s father and brothers: “Do me this favor, and whatever you ask from me, I will give."

"No matter how high you set the bridal price and gift, I will give you whatever you ask from me; only give me the young woman as a wife.”