Genesis 34:30

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: 'Ye have troubled me, to make me odious unto the inhabitants of the land, even unto the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.'

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

In Context

29and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive and spoiled, even all that was in the house.

31And they said: 'Should one deal with our sister as with a harlot?'

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Cross References

Genesis 12:2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.

Genesis 12:12And it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say: This is his wife; and they will kill me, but thee they will keep alive.

Genesis 28:13And, behold, the LORD stood beside him, and said: 'I am the LORD, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.

Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren; weapons of violence their kinship.

Deuteronomy 4:17the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,

Joshua 7:25And Joshua said: 'Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day.' And all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.

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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