They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Genesis 34:28 in context
Genesis 34:25–31
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On the third day, when they were sore, 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.
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They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
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Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
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They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,
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and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.
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Jacob 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.”
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They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”
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