Genesis 34:29

they also took their little ones and their wives captive.

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In The King James Version

And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

In Context

28Taking their sheep, and herds, and donkeys, and laying waste to everything else that was in their houses and in their fields,

30When they had boldly completed these acts, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: “You have troubled me, and you have made me hateful to the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few. They, gathering themselves together, may strike me down, and then both I and my house will be wiped away.”

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Cross References

Numbers 31:9And they seized their women and little ones, and all their cattle, and all their goods; whatever they were able to have, they despoiled.

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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