Genesis 34:23

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Won't their livestock, their property, and all their animals be ours? Only let us agree to them, and they will dwell with us."

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  • Prov 1:12-13 : 12 Like Sheol, we will swallow them alive, whole, like those who go down to the pit; 13 We will find all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder.
  • Prov 23:4-5 : 4 Do not wear yourself out trying to become rich; stop relying on your own understanding. 5 Will you fix your eyes on wealth only for it to vanish? For it makes itself wings and flies away like an eagle toward the heavens.
  • Prov 28:20 : 20 A faithful man will abound in blessings, but one in a hurry to get rich will not go unpunished.
  • John 2:16 : 16 To those selling doves He said, 'Get these out of here! Stop turning My Father's house into a marketplace!'
  • John 6:26-27 : 26 Jesus answered them, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, you are seeking me not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the bread and were satisfied.' 27 'Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him, God the Father has set his seal of approval.'
  • Acts 19:24-26 : 24 A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought in a lot of business for the craftsmen. 25 He gathered them together, along with others who worked in similar trades, and said, "Men, you know that we gain a good income from this business. 26 You see and hear that not only in Ephesus but almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great number of people by saying that gods made by hands are not really gods.
  • 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8 If we have food and clothing, we will be content with these. 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 34:20-22
    3 verses
    85%

    20Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying:

    21"These men are at peace with us. Let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for the land is spacious enough for them. Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give them our daughters.

    22Only on this condition will the men agree to live with us and become one people: every male among us must be circumcised, just as they are.

  • Gen 34:8-18
    11 verses
    82%

    8Hamor spoke with them, saying, "My son Shechem has set his heart on your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

    9Make marriages with us: give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves.

    10You can dwell with us, and the land will be open to you: live, trade in it, and acquire property here.

    11Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you ask of me, I will give.

    12Set the bride price and gift as high as you like, and I will pay whatever you ask me; just give me the young woman as a wife."

    13But the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah.

    14They said to them, "We cannot do this thing—to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.

    15However, we will agree to you on one condition: if you become like us by every male among you being circumcised.

    16Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for ourselves; we will dwell among you and become one people.

    17But if you will not listen to us and get circumcised, we will take our daughter and leave.

    18Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.

  • Gen 34:24-26
    3 verses
    78%

    24All who went out of the gate of the city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised—all who went out of the gate of the city.

    25On the third day, when they were in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came against the city undetected, and killed every male.

    26They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword and took Dinah from Shechem's house and left.

  • Gen 34:4
    73%

    4Shechem said to his father Hamor, "Get me this girl as my wife."

  • Gen 34:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28They took their flocks, herds, donkeys, and everything in the city and in the fields.

    29They carried off all their wealth, their children, and their wives, taking everything in the houses as plunder.

  • Gen 31:16
    73%

    16Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you to do.'

  • Deut 3:7
    72%

    7But we kept all the livestock and the spoils of the cities for ourselves.

  • Num 32:26
    71%

    26Our children, wives, livestock, and all our animals will remain here in the cities of Gilead,

  • Gen 36:7
    71%

    7Their possessions were too great for them to live together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.

  • Deut 2:35
    71%

    35Only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we took as spoil for ourselves.

  • Josh 2:14
    71%

    14The men said to her, "Our lives for your lives! If you don't tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully when the LORD gives us the land."

  • Num 32:16
    71%

    16Then they approached him and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our children.

  • Gen 14:24
    71%

    24'I will take nothing except what the young men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.'

  • Gen 34:2
    71%

    2And Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He seized her, lay with her, and violated her.