Genesis 34:30

Then Iaakob said to Simeon and Leui, Ye haue troubled me, and made me stinke among the inhabitats of the land, aswell the Canaanites, as the Perizzites, and and I being few in nomber, they shall gather theselues together against me, and slay me, and so shall I, and my house be destroied.

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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

29Also they caryed away captiue and spoyled all their goods, and all their children and their wiues, and all that was in the houses.

31And they answered, Shoulde hee abuse our sister as a whore?

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Cross References

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

Genesis 12:12Therefore it will come to passe, that when the Egyptians see thee, they will say, She is his wife: so will they kill me, but they will keepe thee aliue.

Genesis 28:13And behold, the Lord stoode aboue it, and sayd, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Izhak: the land, vpon the which thou sleepest, wil I giue thee and thy seede.

Genesis 49:5Simeon and Leui, brethren in euill, the instruments of crueltie are in their habitations.

Deuteronomy 4:17The likenes of any beast that is on earth, or the likenesse of any fethered foule that flieth in the aire:

Joshua 7:25And Ioshua said, In as much as thou hast troubled vs, the Lord shall trouble thee this day: and all Israel threwe stones at him, and 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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