Genesis 34:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.

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  • Prov 1:12-13 : 12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death; 13 Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;
  • Prov 23:4-5 : 4 Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money. 5 Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
  • Prov 28:20 : 20 A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.
  • John 2:16 : 16 And to those who were trading in doves he said, Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a market.
  • John 6:26-27 : 26 Jesus, answering them, said, Truly I say to you, You come after me, not because you saw signs, but because you were given the bread and had enough. 27 Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.
  • Acts 19:24-26 : 24 For there was a certain man named Demetrius, a silver-worker, who made silver boxes for the images of Diana, and gave no small profit to the workmen; 25 Whom he got together, with other workmen of the same trade, and said to them, Men, it is clear that from this business we get our wealth. 26 And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands:
  • 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit: 7 For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out; 8 But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough. 9 But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

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  • Gen 34:20-22
    3 verses
    85%

    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.

    22But these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to become one people, only on the condition that every male among us undergoes circumcision as they have done.

  • Gen 34:8-18
    11 verses
    82%

    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.

    10Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.

    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.

    14And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us:

    15But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;

    16Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on living with you as one people.

    17But if you will not undergo circumcision as we say, then we will take our daughter and go.

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

  • Gen 34:24-26
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    78%

    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.

  • Gen 34:4
    73%

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

  • Gen 34:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fields,

    29And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.

  • Gen 31:16
    73%

    16For the wealth which God has taken from him is ours and our children's; so now, whatever God has said to you, do.

  • Deut 3:7
    72%

    7But we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored wealth of the towns.

  • Num 32:26
    71%

    26Our little ones, our wives, and our flocks, and all our cattle, will be there in the towns of Gilead;

  • Gen 36:7
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    7For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.

  • Deut 2:35
    71%

    35Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had taken.

  • Josh 2:14
    71%

    14And the men said to her, Our life for yours if you keep our business secret; and when the Lord has given us the land, we will keep faith and be kind to you.

  • Num 32:16
    71%

    16Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe places for our cattle here, and towns for our little ones;

  • Gen 14:24
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    24Give me nothing but the food which the fighting-men who went with me have had; but let Aner and Eshcol and Mamre have their part of the goods.

  • Gen 34:2
    71%

    2And 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.