He purchased a section of the field where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for 100 qesitahs.

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the region, saw her, he took her and raped her.

“Get me this girl as a wife,” he told his father Hamor.

Meanwhile, Shechem’s father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.

Hamor said to Jacob’s sons, “My son Shechem is strongly attracted to your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

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

Their words seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.

So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men there.

All the able-bodied men listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and all the able-bodied men were circumcised.

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and went away.

Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the parcel of land Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for 100 qesitahs. It was an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.

Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal, and isn’t Zebul his officer? You are to serve the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem. Why should we serve Abimelech?