Genesis 34:23

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”

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  • Prov 1:12-13 : 12 We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit. 13 We will seize all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder.
  • Prov 23:4-5 : 4 Do not wear yourself out to become rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself. 5 When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!
  • Prov 28:20 : 20 A faithful person will have an abundance of blessings, but the one who hastens to gain riches will not go unpunished.
  • John 2:16 : 16 To those who sold the doves he said,“Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”
  • John 6:26-27 : 26 Jesus replied,“I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted. 27 Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life– the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.”
  • Acts 19:24-26 : 24 For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought a great deal of business to the craftsmen. 25 He gathered these together, along with the workmen in similar trades, and said,“Men, you know that our prosperity comes from this business. 26 And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a large crowd, not only in Ephesus but in practically all of the province of Asia, by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.
  • 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 Now godliness combined with contentment brings great profit. 7 For we have brought nothing into this world and so we cannot take a single thing out either. 8 But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that. 9 Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.

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  • Gen 34:20-22
    3 verses
    85%

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

    21“These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry.

    22Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.

  • Gen 34:8-18
    11 verses
    82%

    8But Hamor made this appeal to them:“My son Shechem is in love with your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.

    9Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.

    10You may live among us, and the land will be open to you. Live in it, travel freely in it, and acquire property in it.”

    11Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers,“Let me find favor in your sight, and whatever you require of me I’ll give.

    12You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, and I’ll give whatever you ask of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”

    13Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.

    14They said to them,“We cannot give our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace to us.

    15We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.

    16Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.

    17But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart.”

    18Their offer pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.

  • Gen 34:24-26
    3 verses
    78%

    24All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.

    25In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city and slaughtered every male.

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

  • Gen 34:4
    73%

    4Shechem said to his father Hamor,“Acquire this young girl as my wife.”

  • Gen 34:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

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

    29They captured as plunder all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.

  • Gen 31:16
    73%

    16Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

  • Deut 3:7
    72%

    7But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.

  • Num 32:26
    71%

    26Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead,

  • Gen 36:7
    71%

    7because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.

  • Deut 2:35
    71%

    35We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves.

  • Josh 2:14
    71%

    14The men said to her,“If you die, may we die too! If you do not report what we’ve been up to, then, when the LORD hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance to you.”

  • Num 32:16
    71%

    16The Offer of the Reubenites and Gadites Then they came very close to him and said,“We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families,

  • Gen 14:24
    71%

    24I will take nothing except compensation for what the young men have eaten. As for the share of the men who went with me– Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre– let them take their share.”

  • Gen 34:2
    71%

    2When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who ruled that area, saw her, he grabbed her, forced himself on her, and sexually assaulted her.