1 And when I was going to my father, I found a bronze shield; so the name of the mountain is Aspis, which is near Gebal, to the south of Abila, and I kept these words in my heart. 2 And after this I advised my father, and Reuben my brother, to tell the sons of Hamor not to be circumcised, because I was zealous about the abomination they had committed against my sister. 3 And I killed Shechem first, and Simeon killed Hamor. 4 And after this, my brothers came and attacked that city with the sword. 5 And my father heard these things and was angry, and he was grieved that they had received the circumcision and then been put to death, and in his blessings he looked unfavorably on us. 6 For we sinned because we had done this thing against his will, and he was sick on that day. 7 But I saw that the sentence of God was for evil upon Shechem; for they sought to do to Sarah and Rebecca as they had done to Dinah our sister, but the Lord prevented them. 8 And they persecuted Abraham our father when he was a foreigner, and they harassed his flocks when they were pregnant; and Eblaen, who was born in his house, they treated very shamefully. 9 And thus they did to all strangers, taking away their wives by force, and they banished them. 10 But the wrath of the Lord came upon them to the uttermost.⁠a