Genesis 34:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³¹ But they said, “Should our sister be treated like a prostitute?”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ And they said, Should he [be permitted to] deal with our sister as with a harlot?

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot?

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ They responded, "Should they abuse our sister like a prostitute?"

Genesis 34:31 Cross References

Proverbs 6:34

For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury, and he will show no restraint when he takes revenge.

Genesis 34:13

The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah.

Genesis 49:7

Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

Genesis 34:30

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”

Genesis 35:1

God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

Genesis 34:27

And the other sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city because their sister had been defiled.