Genesis 34
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Genesis 34:20-31

20So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the 1gate of their city and spoke to the people of their city, saying, 21“These men are 2friendly to us; therefore let them live in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is 3large enough for them. We will take their daughters 4in marriage, and give our daughters to them. 22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised. 23Will their livestock and their property and all their animals not be ours? Let’s just consent to them, and they will live with us.” 245All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

25Now it came about on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob’s sons--6Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers--each took his sword and came upon the city undetected, and killed every male. 26They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and left. 27Jacob’s sons came upon those killed and looted the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28They took their flocks, their herds, and their donkeys, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field; 29and they captured and looted all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives, even everything that was in the houses. 30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have 7brought trouble on me by 8making me repulsive among the inhabitants of the land, among 9the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and 1011since my men are few in number, they will band together against me and 12attack me, and I will be destroyed, I and my household!” 31But they said, “Should he 13treat our sister like a prostitute?”

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 34:20 Ruth 4:1; 2 Sam 15:2 ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 34:21 Lit peaceful ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 34:21 Lit wide of hands before them ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 34:21 Lit to us for wives ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 34:24 Gen 23:10 ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 34:25 Gen 49:5-7 ↩
  7. 7. Genesis 34:30 Josh 7:25 ↩
  8. 8. Genesis 34:30 Ex 5:21; 1 Sam 13:4; 2 Sam 10:6 ↩
  9. 9. Genesis 34:30 Gen 13:7; 34:2 ↩
  10. 10. Genesis 34:30 Lit I, few in number ↩
  11. 11. Genesis 34:30 Gen 46:26, 27; Deut 4:27; 1 Chr 16:19; Ps 105:12 ↩
  12. 12. Genesis 34:30 Lit strike ↩
  13. 13. Genesis 34:31 Or make ↩

Commentaries on Genesis 34

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