Genesis 34:29

and their children and wives they took captive,

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

28And they took their sheep and their herds and their asses, wasting all they had in their houses and in the fields.

30And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land: we are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house, shall be destroyed.

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Cross References

Numbers 31:9And they took their women, and their children captives, and all their cattle, and all their goods: and all their possessions they plundered:

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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