Genesis 34:21-31

21 “These men are friendly toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and trade in it; the land has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters and they can marry ours.
22 But the men will agree to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised, as they themselves are.
23 Won’t their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours? So let us agree to their terms, and they will settle among us.”
24 All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.
25 Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male.
26 They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem’s house and left.
27 The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where[a] their sister had been defiled.
28 They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields.
29 They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.
30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me obnoxious to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
31 But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”

Cross References 26

  • 1. S Genesis 33:19
  • 2. S ver 9
  • 3. S ver 15
  • 4. ver 28; S Genesis 12:16
  • 5. S ver 10
  • 6. S Genesis 18:1; Genesis 23:10
  • 7. Joshua 5:8
  • 8. S Genesis 29:33
  • 9. S Genesis 29:34
  • 10. Genesis 49:5; Malachi 2:16
  • 11. Jdg 18:7,10,27; Ezekiel 38:11
  • 12. Genesis 49:7
  • 13. S ver 7; Genesis 48:22
  • 14. ver 3
  • 15. 2 Kings 21:14
  • 16. S ver 5
  • 17. Genesis 43:18
  • 18. S ver 23
  • 19. S Genesis 31:26
  • 20. Numbers 14:3; Numbers 31:9,53; Deuteronomy 2:35; Joshua 7:21
  • 21. 2 Kings 8:12; Isaiah 13:16; Lamentations 5:11; Amos 1:13; Zechariah 14:2
  • 22. Genesis 43:6; Exodus 5:23; Numbers 11:11
  • 23. Exodus 5:21; Exodus 6:9; 1 Samuel 13:4; 1 Samuel 27:12; 2 Samuel 10:6; 1 Chronicles 19:6
  • 24. S Genesis 13:7
  • 25. Genesis 35:26; Genesis 46:27; Exodus 1:5; Deuteronomy 10:22; Deuteronomy 26:5; 1 Chronicles 16:19; Psalms 105:12
  • 26. ver 2

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