OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 34:2

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Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.

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Verse 2. Virgin. Hebrew and Septuagint “He humbled or afflicted the virgin.” It is well if she made all the resistance she was able, and resented the indignity; as she seems to have done, though Sichem tried all means to comfort her. Bible.

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