Sometimes to make stories from the Bible suitable for Children’s Church or Veggie Tales videos, the details get a little bit sanitized. There are no coloring pages or VBS skits for Genesis chapter 34. This is certainly not the most shocking or the most violent chapter we will read but you do want to brace yourself, it’s not exactly safe for work either. Maybe read the first few verses before you start the player.

Genesis 34

Dinah, Leah’s daughter she bore to Jacob, went out to see the young women of the land.

2 When Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince in that country, saw her, he took her, and raped her.

3 But his soul clung to Jacob’s daughter Dinah, and he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.

4 And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying “Get me this girl as my wife.”

5 Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. His sons were in the field with the livestock and Jacob held his peace until they came home.

6 Shechem’s father Hamor came to speak with him.

7 And Jacob’s sons came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and very angry, because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing which ought not to be done.

8 Hamor spoke with them, saying “My son’s soul longs for your daughter: Please give her to him as a wife.

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

10 And you will dwell with us and the land will be open to you. Live and trade and acquire property in it.”

11 Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers “Let me find grace in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you say.

12 Ask me for a high bride price and gift, and I will give you whatever you tell me, just give me the girl as a wife.”

13 Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.

14 They said to them “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us.

15 But we will agree on one condition: If you will become like us, that every male among you gets circumcised,

16 Then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will live among you and we will become one people.

17 But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then will we take our sister and go.”

18 Now their words seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.

19 The young man did not delay in doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter, and he was more honorable than all his father’s house.

20 Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city, and spoke with the men of their city, saying

21 “These men are peaceable with us; let them live in the land, and trade in it; for the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

22 But on one condition will the men agree to live with us and to be one people; if every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.

23 Won’t their livestock and their possessions and every animal that is theirs be ours? Only let us consent to them so they will live with us.”

24 All that went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.

25 On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, each took his sword, and came to the unsuspecting city and killed all the males.

26 They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house and left.

27 Then Jacob’s other sons came upon the dead bodies, and looted the city because they had defiled their sister.

28 They took their sheep, oxen and donkeys, and that which was in the city and out in the field.

29 And all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives they took captive, and plundered all that was in the houses.

30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi “You have troubled me by making me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. We are few in number and they will gather themselves together against me and attack; and I will be destroyed along with my house.”

31 And they said “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”