An israelite story
intro to dina: the children of israel were born to their father israel son of isac [1 Chron. 1]. after one son named rbn gave his ma berrys, the family traveled to "skem" (in modern hebrew the sound "shi-hhem") Skem was a city of the Canaanites.
the story of dina is the first story about the activitys of these children. NOTE: the story in antq. preserves the original story, which ancient jews believed, which differs from the book genesis for example in the original story pa israel asks for time to consider and the king left. despite the importance of emphasizing the original story, due to the fact that it is the original one and due to the lack of emphasis, still for the purpose of teaching morality and lessons i added to josepus version while summarizing.
sometimes josepus had extra connecting words or a flawed order for example "And when he was gone thence, and was come over against Ephrata, he there buried Rachel, who died in child-bed" does not need twenty words and is bad order, which i fixd. the total is 400 words insted of 500 words, despite the fact that stories are good lengthy, and this is about the relevant family, not merely introduction, still as in the example quoted above the text warranted fixing.
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summary of antiq. b1, 21
Dina, the "only" daughter of israel son of isac, went to see women [g34] in the city Skem which was a city of the Canaanites. isac son of abraham son of tre, son of ner, son of srug, son of ro, son of pelg son of eber son of sela son of arpaksad son of sem son of noe son of lmk, son of mtusle son of enk son of jard, son of malalel, son of kenan son of enos son of seth son of adam. Shechem son of king Hamor saw Dina and felt tempted by lust for her. He sent hamor to bring dina as his wife. king hamor came to israel, to allow their children to wed. her pa requested time to consider about it +planning to leave. "the king returned home." her brothers returned home from shepherding sheep. They and israel heard that a man cruelly and evilly raped +bosmat the dauter of isac's brother, who wed esau, was violently forced against her will.
israel worried for his dauter dina, so he sent a message asking hamor how he deters this crime. king hamor said that tragicly it already occurd in his city. he had punished a criminal with a decree of heavy labor until his death and also lokd the criminal when work time ended. the king warned his son "if you defile dina, he would judge him the same as any citizen with life of labor. so shechem resisted the temptation.
this criminal band came to attack the city skem, warning surrender or else battle. *j Smon and Levi, both born from the same ma as dina, +sent a "peace offering" to the band, many rams and cows and bulls. when the band *j feasted, the 2 came with swords and attacked the gards. while one rescued and led their relative [bosmat] free, the other shot arrows killing the leader, and his heir who sat beside him, they battled their way out killing many of this band, to return her to her family. after losing many soldiers, and their leader, the band left the city.
the israelites traveld to bethel. then came to eprat where rel birthed her second son named benjamin [g35]. she died during the birth. They buried her there.
they returned home to Ebron. israel's ma had died. after a short time isac died. they buried isac with his wife, there.
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