The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar eBook - Book - Page 176
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CHAPTER 30:
Dinah Ravished.
Slaughter Of The
Shechemites. Laws
Against Intermarriage
Between Israel And The
Heathen. The Choice Of
Levi (30:1-26; cf. Gen. 34)
2143 A.M.
1 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.
2 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
Jubilees does
not record of twelve years.
the anger
of Jacob 3 And he besought his father
especially
towards and her brothers that she
Simeon and
Levi. That might be given to him to wife.
does not
mean he was And Jacob and his sons were
not and does
not disagree wroth because of the men of
with Gn. Shechem; for they had defiled
Cf. Gn.
49:5-7 Dinah, their sister, and they
spake to them with evil intent
and dealt deceitfully with
them and beguiled them.
4 And Simeon and Levi came
unexpectedly to Shechem
and executed judgment on
all the men of Shechem,
and slew all the men whom
they found in it, and left not
a single one remaining in
Based upon
33:18 (cf.
R.V. marg.).
Our text
combines
two readings
(“Shalem,”
the name of
a city, and
shlm,
“peace”).
Salem is not
Jerusalem
which is not
named until
over 400
years later.
A B U S E
it: they slew all in torments
because they had dishonoured
their sister Dinah. 5 And thus
let it not again be done from
henceforth that a daughter of
Israel be defiled; for judgment
is ordained in heaven against
them that they should destroy
with the sword all the men of
the Shechemites because they
had wrought shame in Israel.
6 And Yahuah delivered
them into the hands of the
sons of Jacob that they might
exterminate them with the
sword and execute judgment
upon them, and that it might
not thus again be done in
Israel that a virgin of Israel
should be defiled. 7 And if
there is any man who wisheth
in Israel to give his daughter
or his sister to any man who
is of the seed of the Gentiles
he shall surely die, and they
shall stone him with stones;
for he hath wrought shame in
Israel; and they shall burn the
woman with fire, because she Cf. Lv. 21:9
hath dishonoured the name
of the house of her father,
and she shall be rooted out
of Israel. 8 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 holy
unto Yahuah, and every man
who hath defiled (it) shall
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