Genesis 34:31

But Simeon and Levi said, “Should Shechem have dealt with our sister as with a prostitute?”

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And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

In Context

30Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me, to make me stink to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. If they gather themselves together against me and attack me, then I will be destroyed, I and my household.”

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Cross References

Genesis 34:13The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, because Shechem had defiled Dinah their sister.

Genesis 49:7May their anger be cursed, 1 for it was fierce—and their fury, for it was cruel. 1 I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel. 1

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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