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Genesis 34:24-30 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

24. All of the men who went out through the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. So every male in the city was circumcised.

25. Three days later, all of them were still in pain. Then Simeon and Levi took their swords. They were Jacob's sons and Dinah's brothers. They attacked the city when the people didn't expect it. They killed every male.

26. They also killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords. Then they took Dinah from Shechem's house and left.

27. Jacob's other sons found the dead bodies. They robbed the city where their sister had been made "unclean."

28. They took the flocks and herds and donkeys. They took everything that was in the city and out in the fields.

29. They carried everything away. And they took all of the women and children. They took away everything that was in the houses.

30. Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me. Now I'm like a very bad smell to the Canaanites and Perizzites who live in this land. There aren't many of us. They may join together against me and attack me. Then I and my family will be destroyed."

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