Add parallel Print Page Options

29 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house. 30 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.”

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

Read full chapter

29 They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children,(A) taking as plunder(B) everything in the houses.(C)

30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble(D) on me by making me obnoxious(E) to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land.(F) We are few in number,(G) and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

31 But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?(H)

Read full chapter