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

Genesis 34:29

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 25-31)

Here, we have Simeon and Levi, two of Jacob’s sons, young men not much above twenty years old, cutting the throats of the Shechemites, and thereby breaking the heart of their good father. I. Here is the barbarous murder of the Shechemites. Jacob himself was used to the sheep-hook, but his sons had got swords by their sides, as if they had been the seed of Esau, who was to live by his sword; we hav...

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