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Genesis 34:31

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

They answered: Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?

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Because the jealousy and rage of the husband will not spare in the day of revenge,

The sons of Jacob answered Sichem and his father deceitfully, being enraged at the deflowering of their sister:

Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath because it was cruel. I Will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.

And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house, shall be destroyed.

In the mean time, God said to Jacob: Arise, and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau thy brother.

And when they were gone out, the other sons of Jacob came upon the slain; and plundered the city in revenge of the rape.




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