And in the first year of the sixth week he went up to Salem, to the east of Shechem, in peace, in the fourth month.

And there they carried off Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, into the house of Shechem, the son of Hamor, the Hivite, the prince of the land, and he lay with her and defiled her,

and she was a little girl, a child of twelve years. And he besought his father and her brothers that she might be given to him to wife.

And Jacob and his sons were wroth because of the men of Shechem; for they had defiled Dinah, their sister, and they spoke to them with evil intent and dealt deceitfully with them and beguiled them.

And Simeon and Levi came unexpectedly to Shechem and executed judgment on the men of Shechem who had wronged their sister, and slew those whom they found in it.

And thus let it not again be done from henceforth that a daughter of Israel be defiled;

for judgment is ordained in heaven against the wrongdoers who wrought shame in Israel.

And let it not thus again be done in Israel that a virgin of Israel should be defiled.

And if there is any man who wisheth in Israel to give his daughter or his sister to any man who is of the idolaters, he shall be restrained and judged; for he hath wrought shame in Israel;

and the woman shall be reproved, because she hath dishonoured the name of the house of her father.

And let not an adulteress and no uncleanness be found in Israel throughout all the days of the generations of the earth; for Israel is dedicated to God,

and every man who hath defiled it shall be judged according to the law.

For thus hath it been ordained and written in the heavenly tables regarding all the seed of Israel: he who defileth it shall be judged and punished.

And to this law there is no limit of days: the man who hath given his daughter to the idolaters shall be rooted out in the midst of all Israel, because he hath given of his seed to idolaters, and wrought impiously so as to defile it.

And do thou, Moses, command the children of Israel and exhort them not to give their daughters to the idolaters, and not to take for their sons any of the daughters of the idolaters, for this is abominable before God.

For this reason I have written for thee in the words of the Law all the deeds of the Shechemites, which they wrought against Dinah,

and how the sons of Jacob spoke, saying: "We shall not give our daughter to a man who is uncircumcised;

for that were a reproach unto us." And it is a reproach to Israel, to those who give, and to those who take the daughters of the idolaters; for this is unclean and abominable to Israel. And Israel will not be free

from this uncleanness if it hath a wife of the daughters of the idolaters, or hath given any of its daughters to a man who is of the idolaters. For there will be plague upon plague, and curse upon curse, and every judgment and plague and curse will come upon him:

if he do this thing, or hide his eyes from those who commit uncleanness, or those who defile the sanctuary of God, or those who profane His holy name, then will the whole nation together be judged for all the uncleanness and profanation of this man.

And there will be no respect of persons, and no receiving at his hands of fruits and offerings and burnt offerings and fat, so as to accept it:

and so fare every man or woman in Israel who defileth the sanctuary.

For this reason I have commanded thee, saying: "Testify this testimony to Israel: see how the Shechemites fared and their sons: how judgment was executed upon them by two sons of Jacob.

And the seed of Levi was chosen for the priesthood, and to be Levites, that they might minister before God, as we, continually,

and that Levi and his sons may be blessed for ever; for he was zealous to execute righteousness and judgment on those who wronged Israel.

And so they inscribe as a testimony in his favour on the heavenly tables blessing and righteousness before the God of all: and we remember the righteousness which the man fulfilled during his life, at all periods of the year; until a thousand generations they will record it,

and it will come to him and to his descendants after him, and he hath been recorded on the heavenly tables as a friend and a righteous man.

All this account I have written for thee, and have commanded thee to say to the children of Israel, that they should not commit sin nor transgress the ordinances nor break the covenant which hath been ordained for them, but that they should fulfil it and be recorded as friends.

But if they transgress and work uncleanness in every way, they will be recorded on the heavenly tables as adversaries, and they will be destroyed out of the book of life, and they will be recorded in the book of those who will be destroyed and with those who will be rooted out of the earth.

And they brought Dinah, their sister, out of the house of Shechem,

and they took captive everything that was in Shechem, their sheep and their oxen and their asses, and all their wealth, and all their flocks, and brought them all to Jacob their father.

And he reproached them because they had put the city to the sword; for he feared those who dwelt in the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

And the dread of God was upon all the cities which are around about Shechem, and they did not rise to pursue after the sons of Jacob; for terror had fallen upon them.