Genesis 34:29

29 parvulos quoque et uxores eorum duxere captivas

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 quibus egressis inruerunt super occisos ceteri filii Iacob et depopulati sunt urbem in ultionem stupri
28 oves eorum et armenta et asinos cunctaque vastantes quae in domibus et in agris erant
29 parvulos quoque et uxores eorum duxere captivas
30 quibus patratis audacter Iacob dixit ad Symeon et Levi turbastis me et odiosum fecistis Chananeis et Ferezeis habitatoribus terrae huius nos pauci sumus illi congregati percutient me et delebor ego et domus mea
31 responderunt numquid ut scorto abuti debuere sorore nostra
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