Jubilees 30:1-26

¹And in the first year of the sixth week [2143 A.M.] he went up to Salem, to the east of Shechem, in peace, in the fourth month.

²And 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 of twelve years.

³And he begged his father and her brothers that she might be given to him as a wife. And Jacob and his sons were angry because of the men of Shechem, for they had defiled Dinah, their sister; and they spoke to them with evil intent and dealt deceitfully with them and beguiled them.

⁴And Simeon and Levi came unexpectedly to Shechem and executed judgment on all the men of Shechem, and killed all the men whom they found in it, and left not a single one remaining in it: they killed all in torments because they had dishonored their sister Dinah.

⁵And thus let it never again be done from this time on 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.

⁶And the Lord 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.

⁷And if there is any man in Israel who wishes 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 has wrought shame in Israel. And they shall burn the woman with fire, because she has dishonored the name of the house of her father, and she shall be rooted out of Israel.

⁸And let no adulteress and no uncleanness be found in Israel throughout all the days of the generations of the earth; for Israel is holy to the Lord, and every man who has defiled it shall surely die: they shall stone him with stones.

⁹For thus it has been ordained and written on the heavenly tablets regarding all the seed of Israel: he who defiles it shall surely die, and he shall be stoned with stones.

¹⁰And to this law there is no limit of days, and no remission, nor any atonement; but the man who has defiled his daughter shall be rooted out from the midst of all Israel, because he has given of his seed to Moloch, and wrought impiously so as to defile it.

¹¹And you, Moses, command the children of Israel and exhort them not to give their daughters to the Gentiles, and not to take for their sons any of the daughters of the Gentiles, for this is abominable before the Lord.

¹²For this reason I have written for you in the words of the Law all the deeds of the Shechemites, which they wrought against Dinah, and how the sons of Jacob spoke, saying: 'We will not give our daughter to a man who is uncircumcised; for that would be a reproach to us.'

¹³And it is a reproach to Israel, to those who live, and to those who take the daughters of the Gentiles; for this is unclean and abominable to Israel.

¹⁴And Israel will not be free from this uncleanness if it has a wife from the daughters of the Gentiles, or has given any of its daughters to a man who is of any of the Gentiles.

¹⁵For there will be plague upon plague, and curse upon curse, and every judgment and plague and curse will come upon him: if he does this thing, or hides his eyes from those who commit uncleanness, or those who defile the sanctuary of the Lord, or those who profane His holy name, then the whole nation together will be judged for all the uncleanness and profanation of this man.

¹⁶And there will be no respect of persons [and no consideration of persons], and no receiving at his hands of fruits and offerings and burnt-offerings and fat, nor the fragrance of sweet savor, so as to accept it; and so it will be for every man or woman in Israel who defiles the sanctuary.

¹⁷For this reason I have commanded you, saying: 'Testify this testimony to Israel: see how the Shechemites fared and their sons—how they were delivered into the hands of two sons of Jacob, and they killed them under tortures, and it was reckoned to them for righteousness, and it is written down for them as righteousness.'

¹⁸And the seed of Levi was chosen for the priesthood, and to be Levites, that they might minister before the Lord, as we do, continually, and that Levi and his sons may be blessed forever; for he was zealous to execute righteousness and judgment and vengeance on all those who rose against Israel.

¹⁹And so they inscribe as a testimony in his favor on the heavenly tablets blessing and righteousness before the God of all.

²⁰And we remember the righteousness which the man fulfilled during his life, at all periods of the year; until a thousand generations they will record it, and it will come to him and to his descendants after him, and he has been recorded on the heavenly tablets as a friend and a righteous man.

²¹All this account I have written for you, and have commanded you to say to the children of Israel, that they should not commit sin nor transgress the ordinances nor break the covenant which has been ordained for them, but that they should fulfill it and be recorded as friends.

²²But if they transgress and work uncleanness in every way, they will be recorded on the heavenly tablets as adversaries, and they will be destroyed out of the book of life, and they will be recorded in the book of those who will be destroyed and with those who will be rooted out of the earth.

²³And on the day when the sons of Jacob killed Shechem, a writing was recorded in their favor in heaven that they had executed righteousness and uprightness and vengeance on the sinners, and it was written for a blessing.

²⁴And they brought Dinah, their sister, out of the house of Shechem, and they took captive everything that was in Shechem—their sheep and their oxen and their donkeys, and all their wealth, and all their flocks—and brought them all to Jacob their father.

²⁵And he reproached them because they had put the city to the sword, for he feared those who dwelt in the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

²⁶And the dread of the Lord was upon all the cities which are around Shechem, and they did not rise to pursue after the sons of Jacob; for terror had fallen upon them.