Genesis 34:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had connection with her.

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  • Gen 6:2 : 2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.
  • Gen 10:17 : 17 And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite,
  • Gen 20:2 : 2 And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.
  • Gen 33:19 : 19 And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.
  • Gen 39:6-7 : 6 And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything, but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face. 7 And after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with desire, said to him, Be my lover.
  • Deut 21:14 : 14 But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.
  • Deut 22:24 : 24 Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them stoned to death; the young virgin, because she gave no cry for help, though it was in the town, and the man, because he has put shame on his neighbour's wife: so you are to put away evil from among you.
  • Deut 22:29 : 29 Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away all his life.
  • Judg 14:1 : 1 Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines;
  • Judg 19:24-25 : 24 See, here is my daughter, a virgin, and his servant-wife: I will send them out for you to take them and do with them whatever you will. But do no such thing of shame to this man. 25 But the men would not give ear to him: so the man took his woman and sent her out to them; and they took her by force, using her for their pleasure all night till the morning; and when dawn came they let her go.
  • 2 Sam 11:2 : 2 Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
  • Job 31:1 : 1 I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?
  • Job 31:9 : 9 If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;
  • Prov 13:20 : 20 Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.
  • Ezek 22:10-11 : 10 In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean. 11 And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 34:3-9
    7 verses
    87%

    3Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.

    4And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.

    5Now Jacob had word of what Shechem had done to his daughter; but his sons were in the fields with the cattle, and Jacob said nothing till they came.

    6Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, came out to have a talk with Jacob.

    7Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done.

    8But Hamor said to them, Shechem, my son, is full of desire for your daughter: will you then give her to him for a wife?

    9And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

  • Gen 34:1
    85%

    1Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had by Jacob, went out to see the women of that country.

  • Gen 34:24-27
    4 verses
    83%

    24Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision.

    25But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put all the males to death.

    26And Hamor and his son they put to death with the sword, and they took Dinah from Shechem's house and went away.

    27And the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded and made waste the town because of what had been done to their sister;

  • Gen 34:11-13
    3 verses
    82%

    11And Shechem said to her father and her brothers, If you will give ear to my request, whatever you say I will give to you.

    12However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.

    13But the sons of Jacob gave a false answer to Shechem and Hamor his father, because of what had been done to Dinah their sister.

  • Gen 34:18-21
    4 verses
    81%

    18And their words were pleasing to Hamor and his son Shechem.

    19And without loss of time the young man did as they said, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was the noblest of his father's house.

    20Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town,

    21It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.