## Rashbam on Genesis Chapter 34

###### Rashbam on Genesis 34:1:1
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ותצא דינה - כי חוץ לעיר נטה אהלו ויצאה משם ונכנסה לעיר.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
ותצא דינה, because Yaakov had pitched his tent outside the city limits of Shechem. She left that compound to enter the town.


###### Rashbam on Genesis 34:7:1
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ובני יעקב באו מן השדה - בתוך כך שיצא חמור לדבר אל יעקב ומצאם וידבר אתם וגו'.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
ובני יעקב באו מן השדה, during this time Chamor had come from the town to speak to Yaakov, finding the brothers present.


###### Rashbam on Genesis 34:9:1
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בנותיכם תתנו [לנו] ואת בנותינו תקחו לכם - בבני יעקב תלו החיתונים לכבודם לתת ולקחת, אבל כשספרו את הדבר לאנשי עירם אמרו למפרע, לכבוד בני העיר שהם יהיו הלוקחים והנותנים כדי לפתותם שישמעו אליהם להימול.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
בנותיכם תתנו ואת בנותינו תקחו לכם, the sons of Yaakov, on their part made intermarriage something that was in their honour, “i.e. to give and to take.” When Shechem and Chamor presented this proposal to their townspeople they reversed it to make it appear as if they were the ones bestowing honour, when they said: “we will take and we will give.” (verse 31) They did this in order to seduce their townsfolk to submit to circumcision.


###### Rashbam on Genesis 34:10:1
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וסחרוה - החי"ת גורמת הקמ"ץ וכן מן גאל גְּאָלַנִי מן שחט וַיִּשְׁחָטוּהוּ מן שאל וישאלוני משפטי צדק. מן בחר בחרוהו. מן פעל יפעלוהו.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
וסחרוה, the letter ח in this word is the reason why the Torah did not need to write the word בה, i.e. תסחרו בה, “you may trade feely in it.” The vowel kametz under the letter ח instead of the semi vowel sheva we would have expected is what saved the Torah the word, or rather the extra letter ב by adding the word בה to the word וסחרו.


###### Rashbam on Genesis 34:16:1
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וְנָתַנּוּ - דגש. כמו ונתננו פירוש ניתן. וְנָתַנְנוּ וכן מצרים נתנו יד. כמו נתננו.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
ונתנו, with a dagesh in the second letter נ to double it. The meaning is the same as the regular future ניתן “we will give.” A similar construction of this verb is found in Lamentations 5,6 מצרים נתנו יד, meaning the same as נתננו, “we hold out a hand to Egypt.”


###### Rashbam on Genesis 34:19:1
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ולא אחר - מגזרת לא תאחר שהוא משקל כבד כמו תשבר.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
(1) LOST NO TIME. From the same root as (Exod. 22:28), "Do not put off," which is a pi'el, like (Exod. 23:24), "smash" [t'shaber].


###### Rashbam on Genesis 34:19:2
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והוא נכבד - ושמעו לו.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
(2) AND HE WAS RESPECTED. And people heeded him.


###### Rashbam on Genesis 34:25:1
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בהיותם כואבים - לפי דרך ארץ. ופשוטו של מקרא: אז היו כואבים מיום ראשון ושני.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
בהיותם כואבים, according to normal reactions of people to such an operation, and according to the plain meaning of the text, the meaning is that they had been in pain during the first and second day after the circumcision, and they were now in even greater pain,


###### Rashbam on Genesis 34:25:2
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ויבואו על העיר - שהיו יושבים בטח ולא נזהרו מהם. וכן כל בטח שבכל מקום על היושבים הוא אומר בין בתורה בין בנביאים.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
ויבואו על העיר, the people there felt perfectly safe, so that Shimon and Levi did not need to take any precautions. Whenever the word בטח occurs throughout Scriptures, it refers to the people feeling secure, unworried, just as in this verse.


###### Rashbam on Genesis 34:30:1
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להבאישני - את ריחי בהן כמו אשר הבאשתם את ריחנו.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
להבאישני, to ruin our reputation. We have the same word used in a similar sense in Exodus 5,21 הבאשתם את ריחנו, where the overseers of the Jewish people accuse Moses and Aaron after the failure of their first audience with Pharaoh which had resulted in an increased workload, that they had ruined the reputation of the people as diligent workers.