Genesis 34:27

²⁵ Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.

²⁶ They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.

Jacob’s other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.

²⁸ They took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.

²⁹ They carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Jacob’s other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.
KJV: The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
WEB: Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
ASV: The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
DARBY: The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
BLB: The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and they plundered the city because they had defiled their sister:

ÅB: Jakobs sønner kom over de drepte og plyndret byen, fordi deres søster var blitt vanæret.
OTB: Jakobs sønner kom over de drepte og plyndret byen, fordi deres søster var blitt krenket.
B1930: Jakobs sønner kom over de drepte og plyndret byen, fordi deres søster var blitt vanæret.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Esther 9:16
The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces also assembled to defend themselves and rid themselves of their enemies. They killed 75,000 who hated them, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
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Joshua 7:1
The Israelites, however, acted unfaithfully regarding the things devoted to destruction. Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of what was set apart. So the anger of the LORD burned against the Israelites.
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Genesis 34:2
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
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Joshua 7:13
Get up and consecrate the people, saying, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.
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Genesis 34:31
But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
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Esther 9:10
They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
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Exodus 2:14
But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.”
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Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
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