So, while Esau was on his way back to Seir, Jacob decided to set up house in a place called Succoth.
Then one day Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit other young girls of the land.
Shechem, the son of Hamor which was the prince of that particular country, saw her walking. So he grabbed her and deflowered her ... and took her with him.
He started to learn to know her and he fell in love with her.
So he went to his father, Hamor, and said to him: 'Get me this damsel to wife.'
Jacob has heard, in the meantime, that his daughter was raped, but he held his peace, because his sons was still out with the cattle in the field.
Hamor went to Jacob to talk about the situation ... and at that time Jacob's sons was back from the field.
When they heard the story of what happened to Dinah they were vivid with anger for what Shechem did to the daughter of Jacob.
Hamor then said to Jacob and his sons: 'My son Shechem likes the daughter of your house very much. Give her to him as a wife and then we can become family and share everything we have. We can then marry into each other's families. You can even choose a piece of ground as your own.'
He furthermore told them that he would pay any price they want. He even promised them gifts beyond their imagination ... they must just give Dinah to Shechem to be his wife.
And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully ... because he had defiled Dina, their sister ... and said: 'We cannot do this thing ... to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised ... for that were reproach unto us.
But in this will we consent unto you ... if you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised ... then we will give our daughters unto you, and we will dwell with you and we will become one people.
If you don't do it, we will take our daughters and move on.'
So they had an accord.
Shechem and Hamor went back to the city and told the men of the city what has been arranged.
All the men then lined up to be circumcised ... the women of the Israelites were beautiful and well bred.
They were drowing in pain for the next three days ... and this was the time that Jacob's 2 sons Simeon and Levi made their move.
They took their swords and went into the city boldy ... they killed every man in the city, including Hamor and his son Shechem.
They then found their sister, Dinah, and took her back to her father, Jacob.
Jacob was not happy about the way his 2 sons handled the situation ... he was worried that the Canaanites and the Perizzites would come for revenge ... and Jacob and his would be totally outmanned.
But Simeon and Levi stood by what they did ... they answered their father: 'He should not have treated our sister as a harlot.'
When Jacob was alone, God said to him: 'Pack up and go to Beth-el and stay there. Build an altar there for Me, because I am the God that met with you when you were running away from your brother.
Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him: 'Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments.
And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.'
So everybody gave all the strange gods and all their earrings to Jacob, and he hid it under the oak which was by Shechem.
And while they journeyed to Beth-el, God terrosised the cities that they passed, and the people kept clear from the Israelites.
Eventually Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is Beth-el ... he and all the people that were with him.
He built there an altar and called the place El-beth-el.
And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him, saying unto him: 'Thy name shall not be called Jacob anymore ... but Israel shall be thy name.'
It came to pass that Rebekah became pregnant again ... but she died during labour ... Israel [Jacob] called his son Benjamin.
At last Israel [Jacob] reached his father, Isaac, in Mamre ... and Isaac was 140 years old by this time.
Not long after that Isaac gave up the ghost and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Genesis 34-35
