Genesis 34:28

Taking their sheep, and herds, and donkeys, and laying waste to everything else that was in their houses and in their fields,

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In The King James Version

They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,

In Context

27And when they had departed, the other sons of Jacob rushed over the slain, and they plundered the city in vengeance for the rape.

29they also took their little ones and their wives captive.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:17Otherwise, you might say in your heart: ‘My own strength, and the power of my own hand, have brought forth all these things for me.’

Job 20:5that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 34:26-31

Murder of the Shechemites. ( b. c. 1732.) 25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males. 26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out. 27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28 They took their sheep, and their oxen,… Read the whole commentary →

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