II. SHECHEM, Son of Hamor, Prince of the Shechemites: He took away Dinah the Daughter of Jacob, as she went to see one of the Festivals of the Shechemites1, and dishonoured her: Then asking her in Marriage, he obtain’d her, on this Condition, That he, and all the Men of Shechem, should be circumcised. This was agreed to; but on the third Day after, when the Wound of the Circumcision was at the forest, Simeon and Levi, the two Brothers of Dinah by the same Mother, took their Swords and enter’d the City of Shechem, and slew all the Males they could meet with. After which, the other Sons of Jacob, and their Domesticks plunder’d the City.
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Gen. xxxiv. 1, 2, 3, &c. About the Year of the World 2265, before Christ 1735, before the Vulgar Era 1739. ↩