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Promises come with hardship

When I wanted to court Lee Yen (my wife) I had to seek permission from her father, because I am Indian and she is Chinese. I made an appointment to see him but while I was at Lee Yen's house, not only did the mother join us, but also her uncle, aunt and grandmother. It became quite an interview. But, praise God we finished well and I was accepted. End of that year (1991) we got married. This was not to be the case with Shechem and Dinah, Jacob's daughter. Genesis 34:2, And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her and lay with her, and violated her. Dinah was raped and, the manner the story was written, Shechem wanted to take one step further and marry her, instead of just stop with the crime. Jacob, being a small family living in a foreign land, had to be careful about how he reacted to the matter. His sons convinced them to get circumcised but Dinah's two brothers avenged the matter by killing all the men of the land and rescu...