Genesis 34:27

²⁵ And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.

²⁶ And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out.

The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.

²⁸ They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,

²⁹ And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

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
But the other Jews that were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,
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Joshua 7:1
But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.
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Genesis 34:2
And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
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Joshua 7:13
Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
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Genesis 34:31
And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
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Esther 9:10
The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
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Exodus 2:14
And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
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Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
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