Genesis 34:27

World English Bible (2000)

Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

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  • Gen 34:2 : 2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
  • Gen 34:31 : 31 They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"
  • Exod 2:14 : 14 He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known."
  • Josh 7:1 : 1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh's anger burned against the children of Israel.
  • Josh 7:13 : 13 "Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, 'Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, "There is a devoted thing in the midst of you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you."
  • Josh 7:21 : 21 When I saw among the spoil a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it."
  • Esth 9:10 : 10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's enemy, but they didn't lay their hand on the plunder.
  • Esth 9:16 : 16 The other Jews who were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn't lay their hand on the plunder.
  • 1 Tim 6:10 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 34:24-26
    3 verses
    87%

    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 34:13-14
    2 verses
    86%

    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.

  • Gen 34:28-31
    4 verses
    84%

    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.

    30Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."

    31They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"

  • Gen 34:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

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

  • Gen 34:4-7
    4 verses
    82%

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

    5Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.

    6Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.

    7The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; a which thing ought not to be done.