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Genesis 34:24-31 Common English Bible (CEB)

24. Everyone at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, so every able-bodied male in the city was circumcised.

25. On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons and Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi took their swords, came into the city, which suspected nothing, and killed every male.

26. They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah from Shechem’s household, and left.

27. When Jacob’s other sons discovered the dead, they looted the city that had defiled their sister.

28. They took their flocks, their cattle, and their donkeys, whether in the city or in the fields nearby.

29. They carried off their property, their children, and their wives. They looted the entire place.

30. Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You’ve put me in danger by making me offensive to those who live here in the land, to the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I have only a few men. They may join forces, attack me, and destroy me, me and my household."

31. They said, "But didn’t he treat our sister like a prostitute?"

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