Three days later, all of them were still in pain. Then Simeon and Levi took their swords. They were Jacob’s sons and Dinah’s brothers. They attacked the city when the people didn’t expect it. They killed every male.They also used their swords to kill Hamor and his son Shechem. Then they took Dinah from Shechem’s house and left.Jacob’s other sons found the dead bodies. They robbed the city where their sister had been raped.They took the flocks and herds and donkeys. They took everything in the city and in the fields.They carried everything away. And they took all the women and children. They took away everything in the houses.Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi,“ You have brought trouble on me. Now I’m like a very bad smell to the Canaanites and Perizzites who live in this land. There aren’t many of us. They may join together against me and attack me. Then I and my family will be destroyed.”But they replied,“ Should Shechem have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
She became pregnant again. She had a son. Then she said,“ The Lord heard that Jacob doesn’t love me very much. That’s why the Lord gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon.She became pregnant again. She had a son. Then she said,“ Now at last my husband will value me. I have had three sons by him.” So the boy was named Levi.
The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar and Shaul. Shaul was the son of a woman from Canaan.The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath and Merari.
