Genesis 34:30

And Jacob saith unto Simeon and unto Levi, 'Ye have troubled me, by causing me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanite, and among the Perizzite: and I [am] few in number, and they have been gathered against me, and have smitten me, and I have been destroyed, I and my house.'

Young's Literal Translation

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 infants, and their wives they have taken captive, and they spoil also all that [is] in the house.

31And they say, 'As a harlot doth he make our sister?'

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Cross References

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

Genesis 12:12and it hath come to pass that the Egyptians see thee, and they have said, 'This [is] his wife,' and they have slain me, and thee they keep alive:

Genesis 28:13and lo, Jehovah is standing upon it, and He saith, 'I [am] Jehovah, God of Abraham thy father, and God of Isaac; the land on which thou art lying, to thee I give it, and to thy seed;

Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi [are] brethren! Instruments of violence — their espousals!

Deuteronomy 4:17a form of any beast which [is] in the earth — a form of any winged bird which flieth in the heavens —

Joshua 7:25And Joshua saith, 'What! thou hast troubled us! — Jehovah doth trouble thee this day;' and all Israel cast stones at him, and they burn them with fire, and they stone 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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