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Genesis 34:31
But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?
Genesis 34:31 · Bible in Basic English
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Genesis 34:31 in other translations
And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”
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In context
28 They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fields,
29 And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.
30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.
31 But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?
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