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Genesis 33:19

Genesis 34:2-8, 11-27

  1. The father of Hamor, from whom Jacob purchased a plot of land for a hundred pieces of silver (Genesis 33:19)
  2. The son of Hamor, who slept with Dinah, Jacob’s daughter, and then asked Jacob for her hand in marriage. He, Hamor, and the people in the city of Shechem subsequently were circumcised as part of the marriage agreement, and, three days later, were killed by Simeon and Levi and their city looted (Genesis 34:2-8, 11-27).
  3. A son of Gilead, the son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh, and the father of the Shechemites (Numbers 26:31; Joshua 17:2)

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