And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter: which thing ought not to be done.

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Meanwhile, Jacob’s sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked(A) and furious,(B) because Shechem had done an outrageous thing in[a] Israel(C) by sleeping with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 34:7 Or against

15 And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.

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15 Whoever is caught with the devoted things(A) shall be destroyed by fire,(B) along with all that belongs to him.(C) He has violated the covenant(D) of the Lord and has done an outrageous thing in Israel!’”(E)

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Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

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Save me(A) from all my transgressions;(B)
    do not make me the scorn(C) of fools.

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18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

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18 Remember how the enemy has mocked you, Lord,
    how foolish people(A) have reviled your name.

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22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

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22 Rise up,(A) O God, and defend your cause;
    remember how fools(B) mock you all day long.

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