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: ''Main Article: [[Dinah#Rape and Revenge|Dinah]]''
: ''Main Article: [[Dinah#Rape and Revenge|Dinah]]''
In 2272 AM (1732 BC), his sister Dinah strayed from camp near the city of Shalem, in the region of [[Shechem]]. ({{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=33|verses=18|version=KJV}}) The local prince (also named Shechem) saw her and took her by force. Afterward, the prince was in love with Dinah and asked his father, King Hamor, to negotiate a marriage between him and Dinah.
In 2272 AM (1732 BC), his sister Dinah strayed from camp near the city of Shalem, in the region of [[Shechem]]. ({{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=33|verses=18|version=KJV}}) The local prince (also named Shechem) saw her and took her by force. Afterward, the prince was in love with Dinah and asked his father, King Hamor, to [[negotiate]] a marriage between him and Dinah.
Hamor approached [[Jacob]] and suggested a treaty involving mutual intermarriage. Jacob's sons said that they would accept this, on condition that all the men of the city [[circumcision|circumcise]] themselves. King Hamor agreed to this.
Hamor approached [[Jacob]] and suggested a treaty involving mutual intermarriage. Jacob's sons said that they would accept this, on condition that all the men of the city [[circumcision|circumcise]] themselves. King Hamor agreed to this.
== Entry into Egypt ==
== Entry into Egypt ==
In 2298 AM (1706 BC), Simeon, together with his father, entered Egypt. He was about 51 years old at the time and had six sons: [[Jemuel]], [[Jamin]], [[Ohad]], [[Jachin]], [[Zohar]], and [[Shaul]]. The last son was his son by a [[Canaan]]itish wife.
In 2298 AM (1706 BC), Simeon, together with his father, entered Egypt. He was about 51 years old at the time and had six sons: [[Jemuel]], [[Jamin]], [[Ohad]], [[Jachin]], [[Zohar]], and [[Shaul]]. The last son was his son by a [[Canaan]]itish wife.
In his deathbed blessing of his sons, [[Jacob]] said this of Simeon and Levi both: {{Bible quote|Simeon and Levi are brothers—their swords are weapons of violence. Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased. Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel.|book=Genesis|chap=49|verses=5-7}}
This is a reference to the Shechem incident and might be one reason why the tribes of Simeon and Levi remained separated both during the wilderness journey and in the Promised Land. Simeon received a tribal territory and an assigned place to camp (the south side of the Tabernacle) and in the marching order (in the middle of the second rank). The Levites camped close to the Tabernacle on three sides and had the special duty to carry the Tabernacle furnishings, coverings, hangings, and structural elements. ({{Bible ref|book=Numbers|chap=2-4}}) In the Promised Land, the Levites received no territory but were granted grazing rights in the environs of forty-eight cities.
==Entry into Canaan==
When Moses was on mount Nebo, about to die, he blessed then of the tribes of Israel. This includes Reuben and Levi, both of whom were cursed by Jacob. This, however, excludes Simeon and Issachar. (It is notable that Issachar was already blessed by Jacob 238 years prior, meaning that Simeon was cursed by Jacob and wasn't blessed by Moses.
== Simeon in fiction ==
Simeon appears in many [[motion picture]] and [[television]] projects describing the life and career of [[Joseph]]. One of these projects describes in detail the rape of [[Dinah]] and the revenge that Simeon and [[Levi]] took at [[Shechem]].
Simeon is, of course, famous in all of these projects for being the one whom Joseph had briefly imprisoned during the "testing" operation.
== References ==
== References ==
* [[James Ussher]], ''[[The Annals of the World]]'', pghh. 119, 129, 135-40.
* [[James Ussher]], ''[[The Annals of the World]]'', pghh. 119, 129, 135-40.
==See Also==
==See also==
* [[Israel]]
* [[Israel]]
* [[Palestine]]
* [[Palestine]]