Genesis 34:23

World English Bible (2000)

Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."

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  • Prov 1:12-13 : 12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit. 13 We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil.
  • Prov 23:4-5 : 4 Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. 5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
  • Prov 28:20 : 20 A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
  • John 2:16 : 16 To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"
  • John 6:26-27 : 26 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. 27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
  • Acts 19:24-26 : 24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen, 25 whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, "Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth. 26 You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands.
  • 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out. 8 But having food and clothing, we will be content with that. 9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

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  • Gen 34:20-22
    3 verses
    85%

    20Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,

    21"These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

    22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.

  • Gen 34:8-18
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    82%

    8Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for 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 shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."

    11Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.

    12Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."

    13The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

    14and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.

    15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

    16then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

    17But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone."

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

  • Gen 34:24-26
    3 verses
    78%

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

    25It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.

    26They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.

  • Gen 34:4
    73%

    4Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."

  • Gen 34:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,

    29and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.

  • Gen 31:16
    73%

    16For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."

  • Deut 3:7
    72%

    7But all the livestock, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.

  • Num 32:26
    71%

    26Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;

  • Gen 36:7
    71%

    7For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their livestock.

  • Deut 2:35
    71%

    35only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.

  • Josh 2:14
    71%

    14The men said to her, "Our life for yours, if you don't talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you."

  • Num 32:16
    71%

    16They came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones:

  • Gen 14:24
    71%

    24I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion."

  • Gen 34:2
    71%

    2Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.