Genesis 34:28 They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields.

English Standard Version
They took their flocks and their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field.

New American Standard Bible
They took their flocks and their herds and their donkeys, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field;

King James Bible
They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They took their sheep, cattle, donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field.

International Standard Version
seizing all of their flocks, herds, donkeys, and whatever else was in the city or had been left out in the field.

American Standard Version
They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they took their sheep and their herds and their asses, wasting all they had in their houses and in the fields.

Darby Bible Translation
Their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and what was in the city, and what was in the field they took;

Young's Literal Translation
their flock and their herd, and their asses, and that which is in the city, and that which is in the field, have they taken;

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

20. Hamor and Shechem … came unto the gate of their city—That was the place where every public communication was made; and in the ready obsequious submission of the people to this measure we see an evidence either of the extraordinary affection for the governing family, or of the abject despotism of the East, where the will of a chief is an absolute command.