Genesis - Chapter 34 Questions

Q1. Who did Dinah go to see?

The daughters of the land.

Her mother Leah.

The sons of the land.

Q2. What did Shechem do to Dinah?

He sported with her.

He took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

He kissed her.

Q3. How did Shechem feel about Dinah?

He hated the damsel.

She was fair in his eyes and he favored the damsel.

He loved the damsel.

Q4. What did Shechem tell his father Hamor?

Get me this damsel to wife.

I will serve Jacob seven years for Dinah his daughter.

I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth.

Q5. Where were Jacob's sons when he heard that Shechem had defiled Dinah?

Out in the field taking some venison.

Building Jacob a house of cedar.

With Jacob's cattle in the field.

Q6. What did Hamor do with Jacob?

Bowed himself to the ground to honor him.

Communed with him.

Fell on his neck to beseech him.

Q7. Why were Jacob's sons very wroth?

Because he hath taken away their blessing.

Because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.

Because he had changed their wages ten times.

Q8. What did Hamor request of Jacob's sons?

I pray you give her him to wife.

Receive my present at my hand.

Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me.

Q9. What did Hamor suggest be done with the daughters?

They should keep their fathers sheep.

They should be sold.

Give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

Q10. What does Hamor suggest that Jacob's sons should do?

Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred.

Q11. What does Shechem say to Jacob and his sons?

I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand.

I will serve thee seven years for Dinah thy daughter.

Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

Q12. What does Shechem expect to pay for Dinah?

Much dowry and gift.

Our daughters.

A parcel of a field.

Q13. How did the sons of Jacob answer Shechem and Hamor?

They rebuked them.

They answered with subtlety.

They answered deceitfully.

Q14. Why do Jacob's sons say they can not give their sister to Shechem?

We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us.

It would be a grief of mind unto Jacob and to Leah.

Jacob had ordered, Thou shalt not take a husband of the sons of Canaan.

Q15. What solution to the marriage problem is suggested by Jacob's sons?

He that toucheth this woman shall surely be put to death.

If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised.

Take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban.

Q16. What do Jacob's sons say they will do if Shechem agrees to their demand?

We will slay you with the edge of the sword.

We will do unto thee nothing but good, and will send thee away in peace.

Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

Q17. What do Jacob's sons say they will do if Shechem does not agree to their demand?

We will slay you with the edge of the sword.

Then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

We will do unto thee nothing but good, and will send thee away in peace.

Q18. How did Hamor and Shechem react to this demand?

They were pleased.

They were very wroth.

They were greatly afraid and distressed.

Q19. Why was Shechem willing to do the thing?

Because he had delight in Jacob's daughter.

Because he was more honorable than all the house of his father.

Both A and B.

Q20. Where did Hamor and Shechem commune with the men of their city?

In the home of the prince of the country.

At the gate of their city.

In the valley.

Q21. How do Hamor and Shechem describe Jacob's sons?

They are much mightier than we and the hand of the Lord their God be with them.

It is in the power of their hand to do us hurt.

These men are peaceable with us.

Q22. What is required of the men of the city for Jacob's sons to dwell with them, to be one people?

If every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.

Give your daughters unto them.

Deliver them from the hand of Esau.

Q23. What do Shechem and Hamor say about Jacob and his son’s animals?

For we will have possession of their flocks, and possession of their herds.

Thus God hath taken away the cattle of Jacob, and given them to us.

Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours.

Q24. How did the men of the city respond?

They hated Jacob, and sent him away.

Every male was circumcised.

Four hundred men smote Jacob's company with the edge of the sword.

Q25. What was wrong with the men of the city on the third day?

They stunk among the inhabitants of the land.

They were sore.

They drank of the wine, and were drunken.

Q26. What did Simeon and Levi do to Hamor and Shecham and the men of their city?

They slew them with the edge of the sword.

They gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

They sent them away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp.

Q27. Why did the sons of Jacob spoil the city?

They desired all their wealth.

They were greatly afraid and distressed.

Because they had defiled their sister.

Q28. What did the sons of Jacob take from the city and the field?

Flocks, and herds, and great store of servants.

They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses.

Oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants.

Q29. What did the sons of Jacob do with the little ones and the wives of the men of the city?

They slew them with the edge of the sword.

They sent them away in peace.

Their little ones, and their wives took they captive.

Q30. What did Jacob say would be the reaction of the inhabitants of the land?

They shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

They will dwell with us, and we will become one people.

They will surely send me away now empty.

Q31. How do Simeon and Levi explain their actions to Jacob?

Because they had defiled their sister.

Shechem had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.

Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

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