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17But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

Genesis 34:17

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 6-17)

Jacob’s sons, when they heard of the injury done to Dinah, showed a very great resentment of it, influenced perhaps rather by jealousy for the honour of their family than by a sense of virtue. Many are concerned at the shamefulness of sin that never lay to heart the sinfulness of it. It is here called folly in Israel (Gen. 34:7), according to the language of after-times; for Israel was not yet a p...

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