Genesis 34:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

their cattle, and their substance, and all their beasts -- are they not ours? only let us consent to them, and they dwell with us.'

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  • Prov 1:12-13 : 12 We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down `to' the pit, 13 Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses `with' spoil,
  • Prov 23:4-5 : 4 Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not. 5 For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
  • Prov 28:20 : 20 A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.
  • John 2:16 : 16 and to those selling the doves he said, `Take these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.'
  • John 6:26-27 : 26 Jesus answered them and said, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were satisfied; 27 work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- `even' God.'
  • Acts 19:24-26 : 24 for a certain one, Demetrius by name, a worker in silver, making silver sanctuaries of Artemis, was bringing to the artificers gain not a little, 25 whom, having brought in a crowd together, and those who did work about such things, he said, `Men, ye know that by this work we have our wealth; 26 and ye see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but almost in all Asia, this Paul, having persuaded, did turn away a great multitude, saying, that they are not gods who are made by hands;
  • 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 but it is great gain -- the piety with contentment; 7 for nothing did we bring into the world -- `it is' manifest that we are able to carry nothing out; 8 but having food and raiment -- with these we shall suffice ourselves; 9 and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction, 10 for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

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  • Gen 34:20-22
    3 verses
    85%

    20And Hamor cometh -- Shechem his son also -- unto the gate of their city, and they speak unto the men of their city, saying,

    21`These men are peaceable with us; then let them dwell in the land, and trade `in' it; and the land, lo, `is' wide before them; their daughters let us take to ourselves for wives, and our daughters give to them.

    22`Only for this do the men consent to us, to dwell with us, to become one people, in every male of us being circumcised, as they are circumcised;

  • Gen 34:8-18
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    8And Hamor speaketh with them, saying, `Shechem, my son, his soul hath cleaved to your daughter; give her, I pray you, to him for a wife,

    9and join ye in marriage with us; your daughters ye give to us, and our daughters ye take to yourselves,

    10and with us ye dwell, and the land is before you; dwell ye and trade `in' it, and have possessions in it.'

    11And Shechem saith unto her father, and unto her brethren, `Let me find grace in your eyes, and that which ye say unto me, I give;

    12multiply on me exceedingly dowry and gift, and I give as ye say unto me, and give to me the young person for a wife.'

    13And the sons of Jacob answer Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and they speak (because he defiled Dinah their sister),

    14and say unto them, `We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to one who hath a foreskin: for it `is' a reproach to us.

    15`Only for this we consent to you; if ye be as we, to have every male of you circumcised,

    16then we have given our daughters to you, and your daughters we take to ourselves, and we have dwelt with you, and have become one people;

    17and if ye hearken not unto us to be circumcised, then we have taken our daughter, and have gone.'

    18And their words are good in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shechem, Hamor's son;

  • Gen 34:24-26
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    24And unto Hamor, and unto Shechem his son, hearken do all those going out of the gate of his city, and every male is circumcised, all those going out of the gate of his city.

    25And it cometh to pass, on the third day, in their being pained, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, take each his sword, and come in against the city confidently, and slay every male;

    26and Hamor, and Shechem his son, they have slain by the mouth of the sword, and they take Dinah out of Shechem's house, and go out.

  • Gen 34:4
    73%

    4And Shechem speaketh unto Hamor his father, saying, `Take for me this damsel for a wife.'

  • Gen 34:28-29
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    28their flock and their herd, and their asses, and that which `is' in the city, and that which `is' in the field, have they taken;

    29and all their wealth, and all their infants, and their wives they have taken captive, and they spoil also all that `is' in the house.

  • Gen 31:16
    73%

    16for all the wealth which God hath taken away from our father, it `is' ours, and our children's; and now, all that God hath said unto thee -- do.'

  • Deut 3:7
    72%

    7and all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we have spoiled for ourselves.

  • Num 32:26
    71%

    26our infants, our wives, our cattle, and all our beasts, are there in cities of Gilead,

  • Gen 36:7
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    7for their substance was more abundant than to dwell together, and the land of their sojournings was not able to bear them because of their cattle;

  • Deut 2:35
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    35only, the cattle we have spoiled for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we have captured.

  • Josh 2:14
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    14And the men say to her, `Our soul for yours -- to die; if ye declare not this our matter, then it hath been, in Jehovah's giving to us this land, that we have done with thee kindness and truth.'

  • Num 32:16
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    16And they come nigh unto him, and say, `Folds for the flock we build for our cattle here, and cities for our infants;

  • Gen 14:24
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    24save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who have gone with me -- Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre -- they take their portion.'

  • Gen 34:2
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    2and Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, seeth her, and taketh her, and lieth with her, and humbleth her;