Genesis 34:31 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³¹ But they said, “Should he treat our sister as a harlot?”

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 makes a man furious, and he will not spare 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 dwell there; and make there an altar to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

Genesis 34:27

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