Genesis 34:29

29 They carried off all the wealth and all the women and children and looted everything in the houses.

Genesis 34:29 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 34:29

And all their wealth
Or "power" F15 or "strength"; every thing that made them mighty and powerful; their gold and silver, their jewels, and rich furniture of their houses, their arms and weapons of war, their goods and substance, in which they trafficked:

and all their little ones and their wives took they captive:
they spared the women and children, as was usual war, and in the plunder of towns and cities:

and spoiled even all that [was] in the house;
of Shechem or Hamor, or in any of the houses of the inhabitants; they rifled and plundered everyone, and took away whatsoever they found in them; but as Jacob disapproved of this unjust, cruel, bloody, and perfidious action, so no doubt, as he set the captives at liberty, he restored to them their cattle and substance.


FOOTNOTES:

F15 (Mlyx) "siquidem" (lyx) "proprie potentia, robur", Drusius; so Ainsworth.

Genesis 34:29 In-Context

27 Then Jacob's sons stripped the corpses and looted the city where their sister had been dishonored.
28 They took the sheep and goats, cattle, donkeys, and whatever else was in the city or out in the fields.
29 They carried off all the wealth and all the women and children and looted everything in the houses.
30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have caused me a lot of trouble! You've made the people living in the area, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, hate me. There are only a few of us. If they join forces against me and attack me, my family and I will be wiped out."
31 Simeon and Levi asked, "Should Shechem have been allowed to treat our sister like a prostitute?"
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