| Genesis 34:31 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | But they said, "Should he treat our sister as a harlot?" (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Simeon and Levi asked, "Should Shechem have been allowed to treat our sister like a prostitute?"(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot? |
| ASV: | And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot? |
| BBE: | But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman? |
| DBY: | And they said, Should people deal with our sister as with a harlot? |
| ERV: | And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot? |
| JPS: | And they said: 'Should one deal with our sister as with a harlot?' |
| WBS: | And they said, Should he deal with our sister, as with a harlot? |
| WEB: | They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?" |
| YLT: | And they say, 'As a harlot doth he make our sister?' |
| Genesis 34:31 Cross References |
| XREF: | Genesis 34:30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me by making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and my men being few in number, they will gather together against me and attack me and I will be destroyed, I and my household."
Genesis 35:1 Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and live there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau." (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| WES: | 34:31 Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot? - No, he should not; but, if he do, Must they be their own avengers? And nothing less than so many lives, and the ruin of a whole city, serve to atone for the abuse. |
| MHC: | 34:20-31 The Shechemites submitted to the sacred rite, only to serve a turn, to please their prince, and to enrich themselves, and it was just with God to bring punishment upon them. As nothing secures us better than true religion, so nothing exposes us more than religion only pretended to. But Simeon and Levi were most unrighteous. Those who act wickedly, under the pretext of religion, are the worst enemies of the truth, and harden the hearts of many to destruction. The crimes of others form no excuse for us. Alas! how one sin leads on to another, and, like flames of fire, spread desolation in every direction! Foolish pleasures lead to seduction; seduction produces wrath; wrath thirsts for revenge; the thirst of revenge has recourse to treachery; treachery issues in murder; and murder is followed by other lawless actions. Were we to trace the history of unlawful commerce between the sexes, we should find it, more than any other sin, ending in blood. |
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