Genesis 34:13

And the sons of Jacob answer Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, and they speak (because he defiled their sister Dinah),

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

In Context

12multiply on me dowry and gift exceedingly, and I give as you say to me, and give to me the young person for a wife.”

14and say to them, “We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to one who has a foreskin, for it [is] a reproach to us.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:27And the youths grew, and Esau is a man acquainted [with] hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob [is] a plain man, inhabiting tents;

2 Samuel 13:23And it comes to pass, after two years of days, that Absalom has shearers in Ba‘al-Hazor, which [is] near Ephraim, and Absalom calls for all the sons of the king.

Job 13:7Do you speak perverseness for God? And do you speak deceit for Him?

Proverbs 12:13The snare of the wicked [is] in transgression of the lips, || And the righteous goes out from distress.

Proverbs 24:28Do not be a witness against your neighbor for nothing, || Or you have enticed with your lips.

Isaiah 59:13Transgressing, and lying against YHWH, || And removing from after our God, || Speaking oppression and apostasy, || Conceiving and uttering 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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