Genesis 34:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And 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;

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  • Gen 34:2 : 2 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.
  • Gen 34:31 : 31 But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?
  • Exod 2:14 : 14 And he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? are you going to put me to death as you did the Egyptian? And Moses was in fear, and said, It is clear that the thing has come to light.
  • Josh 7:1 : 1 But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the family of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving the Lord to wrath against the children of Israel.
  • Josh 7:13 : 13 Up! make the people holy; say to them, Make yourselves holy before tomorrow, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said, There is a cursed thing among you, O Israel, and you will give way before your attackers in the fight till the cursed thing has been taken away from among you.
  • Josh 7:21 : 21 When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.
  • Esth 9:10 : 10 The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the hater of the Jews; but they put not a hand on any of their goods.
  • Esth 9:16 : 16 And the other Jews in every division of the kingdom came together, fighting for their lives, and got salvation from their haters and put seventy-five thousand of them to death; but they did not put a hand on their goods.
  • 1 Tim 6:10 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 34:24-26
    3 verses
    87%

    24 Then 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.

    25 But 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.

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

  • Gen 34:13-14
    2 verses
    86%

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

    14 And 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:

  • Gen 34:28-31
    4 verses
    84%

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

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

    30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

    31 But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?

  • Gen 34:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

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

    2 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.

  • Gen 34:4-7
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    82%

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

    5 Now 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.

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

    7 Now 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.