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Genesis 34:13

The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father with deceit, being enraged at the rape of their sister:

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In The King James Version

And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:

In Context

12Increase the dowry, and request gifts, and I will freely bestow what you will ask. Only give me this girl as a wife.”

14“We are not able to do what you ask, nor to give our sister to an uncircumcised man. For us, this is unlawful and abominable.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:27And as adults, Esau became a knowledgeable hunter and a man of agriculture, but Jacob, a simple man, dwelt in tents.

2 Samuel 13:23Then, after the time of two years, it happened that the sheep of Absalom were being shorn in Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim. And Absalom invited all the sons of the king.

Job 13:7Does God require your lie, so that you would speak deceitfully for him?

Proverbs 12:13For the sins of the lips draw ruin to the evil. But the just shall escape from distress.

Proverbs 24:28Do not be a witness without cause against your neighbor. And do not mislead anyone with your lips.

Isaiah 59:13sinning and lying against the Lord. And we have turned away, not so as to go after our God, and so that we were speaking calumny and transgression. We have conceived, and spoken from the heart, words of falsehood.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 34:7-18

Treachery of Dinah's Brethren. ( b. c. 1732.) 6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him. 7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. 8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife. 9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your… Read the whole commentary →

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