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They were shocked and furious, because Shechem had done an outrageous thing in Israel by sleeping with Jacob&#8217s daughter—a thing that should not be done. <a href="/nlt/genesis/34.htm">New Living Translation</a> Meanwhile, Jacob’s sons had come in from the field as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked and furious that their sister had been raped. Shechem had done a disgraceful thing against Jacob’s family, something that should never be done. <a href="/esv/genesis/34.htm">English Standard Version</a> The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing must not be done. <a href="/bsb/genesis/34.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> When Jacob’s sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done. <a href="/kjv/genesis/34.htm">King James Bible</a> And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. <a href="/nkjv/genesis/34.htm">New King James Version</a> And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved and very angry, because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing which ought not to be done. <a href="/nasb_/genesis/34.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Now the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard about it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by sleeping with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done. <a href="/nasb/genesis/34.htm">NASB 1995</a> Now the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob&#8217s daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done. <a href="/nasb77/genesis/34.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Now the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done. <a href="/lsb/genesis/34.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Now the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done. <a href="/amp/genesis/34.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Now when Jacob’s sons heard of it they came in from the field; they were deeply grieved, and they were very angry, for Shechem had done a disgraceful thing to Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing is not to be done. <a href="/csb/genesis/34.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Jacob’s sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident. They were deeply grieved and very angry, for Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob’s daughter, and such a thing should not be done. <a href="/hcsb/genesis/34.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Jacob&#8217s sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident and were deeply grieved and angry. For Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob&#8217s daughter, and such a thing should not be done. <a href="/asv/genesis/34.htm">American Standard Version</a> And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. <a href="/cev/genesis/34.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> just as Jacob's sons were coming in from work. When they learned that their sister had been raped, they became furiously angry, because nothing is more disgraceful than rape, and it must not be tolerated. <a href="/erv/genesis/34.htm">English Revised Version</a> And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. <a href="/gwt/genesis/34.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Jacob's sons came in from the open country as soon as they heard the news. The men felt outraged and very angry because Shechem had committed such a godless act against Israel's family by raping Jacob's daughter. This shouldn't have happened. <a href="/gnt/genesis/34.htm">Good News Translation</a> just as Jacob's sons were coming in from the fields. When they heard about it, they were shocked and furious that Shechem had done such a thing and had insulted the people of Israel by raping Jacob's daughter. <a href="/isv/genesis/34.htm">International Standard Version</a> Just then Jacob's sons arrived from the field. When they heard what had happened, they were distraught with grief and livid with anger toward Shechem, because he had committed a disgraceful deed in Israel by forcing Jacob's daughter to have sex, an act that never should have happened. <a href="/msb/genesis/34.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> When Jacob?s sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob?s daughter?a thing that should not be done. <a href="/net/genesis/34.htm">NET Bible</a> Now Jacob's sons had come in from the field when they heard the news. They were offended and very angry because Shechem had disgraced Israel by sexually assaulting Jacob's daughter, a crime that should not be committed. <a href="/nheb/genesis/34.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had disgraced Israel by sexually assaulting Jacob?s daughter; a thing that should not be done. <a href="/wbt/genesis/34.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And the sons of Jacob came from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel, in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. <a href="/web/genesis/34.htm">World English Bible</a> The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing that ought not to be done. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/genesis/34.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> and the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard, and the men grieve themselves, and it [is] very displeasing to them, for folly he has done against Israel, to lie with the daughter of Jacob—and so it is not done. <a href="/ylt/genesis/34.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> and the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard, and the men grieve themselves, and it is very displeasing to them, for folly he hath done against Israel, to lie with the daughter of Jacob -- and so it is not done. <a href="/slt/genesis/34.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And the sons of Jacob came from the field when they having heard: and the men will be grieved, and it will be kindled to them exceedingly because he did folly in Israel, to lie with Jacob's daughter; and thus it shall not be done.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/genesis/34.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed, they were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel, and committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob's daughter, <a href="/cpdv/genesis/34.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> behold, his sons arrived from the field. And hearing what had happened, they were very angry, because he had done a filthy thing in Israel and, in violating a daughter of Jacob, had perpetrated an unlawful act. <a href="/nabre/genesis/34.htm">New American Bible</a> just as Jacob’s sons were coming in from the field. When they heard the news, the men were indignant and extremely angry. Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter; such a thing is not done. <a href="/nrsvce/genesis/34.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> just as the sons of Jacob came in from the field. When they heard of it, the men were indignant and very angry, because he had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/genesis/34.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And the sons of Jacob came from the field, and when they heard the news, they were grieved; and they were very indignant, because they had wrought folly in Israel in the disgracing of Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done. <a href="/hpbt/genesis/34.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And the sons of Yaquuv came from the field and when they heard, it grieved them to a man, and it was very evil to them because they had done an abomination in Israel and abused the daughter of Yaquuv, and such is not done.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/genesis/34.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought a vile deed in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. <a href="/sep/genesis/34.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And the sons of Jacob came from the plain; and when they heard, the men were deeply pained, and it was very grievous to them, because the man wrought folly in Israel, having lain with the daughter of Jacob, and so it must not be. <a href="/parallel/genesis/34-7.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ehevn8iSgc?start=8535" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/genesis/34.htm">The Defiling of Dinah</a> …6Meanwhile, Shechem’s father Hamor came to speak with Jacob. 7<a href="/hebrew/3290.htm" title="3290: ya·‘ă·qōḇ (N-proper-ms) -- A son of Isaac, also his desc. From aqab; heel-catcher; Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch.">When Jacob’s</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: ū·ḇə·nê (Conj-w:: N-mpc) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">sons</a> <a href="/hebrew/8085.htm" title="8085: kə·šā·mə·‘ām (Prep-k:: V-Qal-Inf:: 3mp) -- To hear. A primitive root; to hear intelligently.">heard what had happened,</a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: bā·’ū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">they returned</a> <a href="/hebrew/4480.htm" title="4480: min- (Prep) -- From. Or minniy; or minney; for men; properly, a part of; hence, from or out of in many senses.">from</a> <a href="/hebrew/7704.htm" title="7704: haś·śā·ḏeh (Art:: N-ms) -- Field, land. Or saday; from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field.">the field.</a> <a href="/hebrew/3966.htm" title="3966: mə·’ōḏ (Adv) -- Muchness, force, abundance. From the same as 'uwd; properly, vehemence, i.e. vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc.">They were filled with</a> <a href="/hebrew/6087.htm" title="6087: way·yiṯ·‘aṣ·ṣə·ḇū (Conj-w:: V-Hitpael-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- A primitive root; properly, to carve, i.e. Fabricate or fashion; hence to worry, pain or anger.">grief</a> <a href="/hebrew/582.htm" title="582: hā·’ă·nā·šîm (Art:: N-mp) -- Man, mankind. From 'anash; properly, a mortal; hence, a man in general."></a> <a href="/hebrew/2734.htm" title="2734: way·yi·ḥar (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To burn or be kindled with anger. A primitive root; to glow or grow warm; figuratively to blaze up, of anger, zeal, jealousy.">and fury,</a> <a href="/hebrew/lā·hem (Prep:: 3mp) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">because</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ‘ā·śāh (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">Shechem had committed</a> <a href="/hebrew/5039.htm" title="5039: nə·ḇā·lāh (N-fs) -- Senselessness, disgrace. Feminine of nabal; foolishness, i.e. wickedness; concretely, a crime; by extension, punishment.">an outrage</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: ḇə·yiś·rā·’êl (Prep-b:: N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">in Israel</a> <a href="/hebrew/7901.htm" title="7901: liš·kaḇ (Prep-l:: V-Qal-Inf) -- To lie down. A primitive root; to lie down.">by lying</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (Prep) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self.">with</a> <a href="/hebrew/3290.htm" title="3290: ya·‘ă·qōḇ (N-proper-ms) -- A son of Isaac, also his desc. From aqab; heel-catcher; Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch.">Jacob’s</a> <a href="/hebrew/1323.htm" title="1323: baṯ- (N-fsc) -- Daughter. From banah; a daughter.">daughter—</a> <a href="/hebrew/3651.htm" title="3651: wə·ḵên (Conj-w:: Adv) -- So, thus. From kuwn; properly, set upright; hence just; but usually rightly or so.">a thing</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">that should not</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: yê·‘ā·śeh (V-Nifal-Imperf-3ms) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">be done.</a> 8But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-21.htm">Deuteronomy 22:21</a> she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you. <a href="/2_samuel/13-12.htm">2 Samuel 13:12-14</a> “No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not violate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing! / Where could I ever take my shame? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel! Please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.” / But Amnon refused to listen to her, and being stronger, he violated her and lay with her. <a href="/leviticus/18-29.htm">Leviticus 18:29</a> Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people. <a href="/deuteronomy/22-24.htm">Deuteronomy 22:24</a> you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you. <a href="/judges/19-23.htm">Judges 19:23-24</a> The owner of the house went out and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Do not commit this outrage. / Look, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine, and you can use them and do with them as you wish. But do not do such a vile thing to this man.” <a href="/2_samuel/13-22.htm">2 Samuel 13:22</a> And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon for violating his sister Tamar. <a href="/leviticus/20-10.htm">Leviticus 20:10</a> If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death. <a href="/deuteronomy/22-25.htm">Deuteronomy 22:25-27</a> But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die. / Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him. / When he found her in the field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her. <a href="/2_samuel/13-32.htm">2 Samuel 13:32</a> But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar. <a href="/exodus/22-16.htm">Exodus 22:16-17</a> If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged in marriage and sleeps with her, he must pay the full dowry for her to be his wife. / If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin. <a href="/1_corinthians/5-1.htm">1 Corinthians 5:1</a> It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-3.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:3-7</a> For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; / each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, / not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God; ... <a href="/ephesians/5-3.htm">Ephesians 5:3</a> But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed. <a href="/1_corinthians/6-18.htm">1 Corinthians 6:18-20</a> Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. / Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; / you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body. <a href="/romans/13-13.htm">Romans 13:13</a> Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had worked folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter: which thing ought not to be done.were.<a href="/genesis/46-7.htm">Genesis 46:7</a> His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.<a href="/2_samuel/13-21.htm">2 Samuel 13:21</a> But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth.wrought.<a href="/exodus/19-5.htm">Exodus 19:5,6</a> Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: … <a href="/deuteronomy/22-21.htm">Deuteronomy 22:21</a> Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.<a href="/joshua/7-15.htm">Joshua 7:15</a> And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.thing.<a href="/genesis/20-9.htm">Genesis 20:9</a> Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.<a href="/leviticus/4-2.htm">Leviticus 4:2,13,27</a> Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them: … <a href="/deuteronomy/23-17.htm">Deuteronomy 23:17</a> There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/genesis/31-36.htm">Angry</a> <a href="/genesis/34-5.htm">Daughter</a> <a href="/1_john/3-18.htm">Deed</a> <a href="/ephesians/5-12.htm">Disgraceful</a> <a href="/genesis/34-5.htm">Field</a> <a href="/genesis/34-5.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/genesis/29-21.htm">Filled</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-18.htm">Folly</a> <a href="/genesis/27-44.htm">Fury</a> <a href="/genesis/26-35.htm">Grief</a> <a href="/genesis/26-35.htm">Grieved</a> <a href="/genesis/34-5.htm">Heard</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/11-29.htm">Indignant</a> <a href="/genesis/33-20.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/genesis/34-6.htm">Jacob</a> <a href="/genesis/32-32.htm">Jacob's</a> <a href="/genesis/29-2.htm">Lying</a> <a href="/genesis/26-28.htm">Ought</a> <a href="/genesis/34-6.htm">Shechem</a> <a href="/genesis/27-30.htm">Soon</a> <a href="/revelation/22-11.htm">Vile</a> <a href="/genesis/31-36.htm">Wroth</a> <a href="/revelation/19-20.htm">Wrought</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/39-19.htm">Angry</a> <a href="/genesis/34-8.htm">Daughter</a> <a href="/genesis/44-15.htm">Deed</a> <a href="/joshua/7-15.htm">Disgraceful</a> <a href="/genesis/34-28.htm">Field</a> <a href="/genesis/34-28.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/exodus/1-7.htm">Filled</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/22-21.htm">Folly</a> <a href="/genesis/49-7.htm">Fury</a> <a href="/genesis/37-29.htm">Grief</a> <a href="/genesis/45-5.htm">Grieved</a> <a href="/genesis/35-22.htm">Heard</a> <a href="/numbers/23-7.htm">Indignant</a> <a href="/genesis/35-10.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/genesis/34-13.htm">Jacob</a> <a href="/genesis/34-13.htm">Jacob's</a> <a href="/genesis/49-14.htm">Lying</a> <a href="/genesis/39-6.htm">Ought</a> <a href="/genesis/34-8.htm">Shechem</a> <a href="/genesis/39-18.htm">Soon</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-7.htm">Vile</a> <a href="/genesis/40-2.htm">Wroth</a> <a href="/exodus/10-2.htm">Wrought</a><div class="vheading2">Genesis 34</div>1. <a href="/genesis/34-1.htm">Dinah is ravished by Shechem.</a> 4. <a href="/genesis/34-4.htm">He requests to marry her.</a> 13. <a href="/genesis/34-13.htm">The sons of Jacob offer the condition of circumcision to the Shechemites.</a> 20. <a href="/genesis/34-20.htm">Hamor and Shechem persuade them to accept it.</a> 25. <a href="/genesis/34-25.htm">The sons of Jacob upon that advantage slay them, and spoil their city.</a> 30. <a href="/genesis/34-30.htm">Jacob reproves Simeon and Levi.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/genesis/34.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/genesis/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/genesis/34.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>When Jacob’s sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. Jacob's sons were working in the field, indicating their role in tending to the family's livestock and agricultural responsibilities. This setting underscores the agrarian lifestyle of the patriarchs. The urgency of their return suggests the gravity of the situation. The field represents their daily life, which is interrupted by the news of Dinah's defilement, highlighting the disruption of peace and normalcy.They were filled with grief and fury, The emotional response of Jacob's sons reflects the deep sense of injustice and violation of family honor. Grief and fury are common reactions to sin and injustice throughout Scripture, as seen in the righteous anger of God against sin (e.g., <a href="/exodus/32-19.htm">Exodus 32:19</a>). This dual response also foreshadows the actions they will take, driven by both sorrow and anger.because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel The term "outrage" indicates a severe violation of moral and social norms. The use of "in Israel" is significant, as it reflects the nascent identity of Jacob's family as a distinct people, even before the formal establishment of the nation of Israel. This phrase emphasizes the communal impact of Shechem's act, not just a personal affront to Dinah.by lying with Jacob’s daughter— The act of lying with Dinah without consent is a grave sin, violating the sanctity of sexual relations as ordained by God. This incident highlights the vulnerability of women in ancient societies and the importance of family honor. It also serves as a reminder of the protective role of family and community in safeguarding individuals.a thing that should not be done. This phrase underscores the moral and ethical standards expected within the community. It reflects the universal understanding of certain actions as inherently wrong, aligning with the biblical principle of justice and righteousness. The phrase echoes similar sentiments found in other parts of Scripture, such as <a href="/leviticus/18-29.htm">Leviticus 18:29</a>, where certain acts are deemed abominations.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/j/jacob's_sons.htm">Jacob's Sons</a> The sons of Jacob, who were working in the field when they heard about the incident involving their sister, Dinah. They are deeply grieved and angry, reflecting their protective nature and familial loyalty. 2. <a href="/topical/s/shechem.htm">Shechem</a> The man who committed the act against Dinah. He is a Hivite prince, and his actions are described as an outrage, highlighting the severity of his offense. 3. <a href="/topical/d/dinah.htm">Dinah</a> The daughter of Jacob and Leah, who is the victim of Shechem's actions. Her experience is central to the account and the subsequent response of her brothers. 4. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a> Refers to the family and descendants of Jacob, also known as Israel. The term underscores the collective identity and moral expectations of Jacob's family. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_outrage.htm">The Outrage</a> The act committed by Shechem is described as an outrage, indicating a violation of moral and social norms. The Hebrew word used here, (nebalah), often denotes a disgraceful or foolish act.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_family_honor.htm">The Importance of Family Honor</a> The reaction of Jacob's sons underscores the importance of family honor and the protective role of family members. In today's context, this can translate to standing up for justice and protecting the vulnerable. <a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_sin.htm">The Consequences of Sin</a> Shechem's actions lead to significant turmoil and violence. This serves as a reminder of the far-reaching consequences of sin and the importance of adhering to God's moral standards. <a href="/topical/r/righteous_anger_vs._sinful_revenge.htm">Righteous Anger vs. Sinful Revenge</a> While the anger of Jacob's sons is understandable, their subsequent actions raise questions about the line between righteous anger and sinful revenge. Believers are called to seek justice in a way that aligns with God's righteousness. <a href="/topical/t/the_value_of_women_in_scripture.htm">The Value of Women in Scripture</a> Dinah's account, though tragic, highlights the need to value and protect women, recognizing their dignity and worth as created in the image of God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_genesis_34.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Genesis 34</a> <a href="/q/genesis_34_2__how_reconcile_dinah's_plight.htm">Genesis 34:2 – How can the apparent disregard for Dinah’s autonomy be squared with a just and compassionate God? </a> <a href="/q/jacob's_blessings_for_his_sons.htm">What are Jacob's prophetic blessings for his sons?</a> <a href="/q/genesis_34_27-29__how_does_it_align_with_later_laws.htm">Genesis 34:27-29 - How does the looting and enslavement of the city align with later biblical laws condemning such acts?</a> <a href="/q/how_does_genesis_46_8-27_total_70.htm">How does Genesis 46:8-27 reconcile the total of '70 persons' with other biblical passages that give different family counts?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/genesis/34.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(7) He had wrought folly in Israel.--The great anger of Jacob's sons agrees as completely with the general harshness of their characters as the silence of the father with his habitual thoughtfulness; but it was aroused by a great wrong. The use, however, of the term Israel to signify the family of Jacob as distinguished from his person belongs to the age of Moses, and is one of the proofs of the arrangement of these records having been his work. In selecting them, and weaving them together into one history, he would add whatever was necessary, and in the latter half of this verse we apparently have one such addition.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/genesis/34.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 7. - And the sons of Jacob (i.e. Leah's children, Dinah's full brothers, for certain, though perhaps also her half brothers) came out of the field when they heard it (Jacob having probably sent them word): and the men were grieved, - literally, grieved themselves, or became pained with anger, the verb being the hithpael of צָעַב, to toil or labor with pain. The LXX. connect this with the preceding clause, ὡς δὲ ἤκουσαν, κατενύγησαν οἱ ἅνδρες, implying that they did not learn of their sister's seduction till they came home - and they were very wroth, - literally, it burned to them greatly (cf. <a href="/genesis/31-36.htm">Genesis 31:36</a>; <a href="/1_samuel/15-11.htm">1 Samuel 15:11</a>; <a href="/2_samuel/19-4.htm">2 Samuel 19:4</a>:3). Michaelis mentions an opinion still entertained in the East which explains the excessive indignation kindled in the breasts of Dinah's brothers, vie., that "in those countries it is thought that a brother is more dishonored by the seduction of his sister than a man by the infidelity of his wife; for, say the Arabs, a man may divorce his wife, and then she is no longer his; while a sister and daughter remain always sister and daughter" (vide Kurtz, 'Hist. of Old Covenant,' (82) - because he (i.e. Shechem) - had wrought folly. - the term folly easily passes into the idea of wickedness of a shameful character (<a href="/1_samuel/25-25.htm">1 Samuel 25:25</a>; <a href="/2_samuel/13-12.htm">2 Samuel 13:12</a>), since from the standpoint of Scripture sin is the height of unreason (<a href="/psalms/74-22.htm">Psalm 74:22</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/17-11.htm">Jeremiah 17:11</a>), and holiness the sublimest act of wisdom (<a href="/psalms/111-10.htm">Psalm 111:10</a>; <a href="/proverbs/1-4.htm">Proverbs 1:4</a>) - in (or against) Israel - the word, here applied for the first time to Jacob's household, afterwards became the usual national designation of Jacob's descendants; and the phrase here employed for the first time afterwards passed into a standing expression for acts done against the sacred character which belonged to Israel as a separated and covenanted community, especially for sins of the flesh (<a href="/deuteronomy/22-21.htm">Deuteronomy 22:21</a>; <a href="/judges/20-10.htm">Judges 20:10</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/29-23.htm">Jeremiah 29:23</a>), but also for other crimes (<a href="/joshua/7-15.htm">Joshua 7:15</a>) - in lying with Jacob's daughter. The special wickedness of Shechem consisted in dishonoring a daughter of one who was the head of the theocratic line, and therefore under peculiar obligations to lead s holy life. Which thing ought not to be done - literally, and so is it not done (cf. <a href="/genesis/29-26.htm">Genesis 29:26</a>). Assigned to the historian ('Speaker's Commentary'), or to the hand of a late redactor (Davidson, Colenso, Alford), there is no reason why these words should not have been spoken by Jacob's sons (Keil, Murphy, and others)' to indicate their sense of the new and higher morality that had come in with the name of Israel (Lange). <a href="/commentaries/genesis/34-7.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>When Jacob’s יַעֲקֹ֜ב (ya·‘ă·qōḇ) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3290.htm">Strong's 3290: </a> Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc sons וּבְנֵ֨י (ū·ḇə·nê) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> A son heard what had happened, כְּשָׁמְעָ֔ם (kə·šā·mə·‘ām) Preposition-k | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8085.htm">Strong's 8085: </a> To hear intelligently they returned בָּ֤אוּ (bā·’ū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> To come in, come, go in, go from מִן־ (min-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4480.htm">Strong's 4480: </a> A part of, from, out of the field. הַשָּׂדֶה֙ (haś·śā·ḏeh) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7704.htm">Strong's 7704: </a> Field, land They were filled with מְאֹ֑ד (mə·’ōḏ) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3966.htm">Strong's 3966: </a> Vehemence, vehemently, wholly, speedily grief וַיִּֽתְעַצְּבוּ֙ (way·yiṯ·‘aṣ·ṣə·ḇū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6087.htm">Strong's 6087: </a> To carve, fabricate, fashion, to worry, pain, anger and fury, וַיִּ֥חַר (way·yi·ḥar) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2734.htm">Strong's 2734: </a> To glow, grow warm, to blaze up, of anger, zeal, jealousy because כִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> A relative conjunction Shechem had committed עָשָׂ֣ה (‘ā·śāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> To do, make an outrage נְבָלָ֞ה (nə·ḇā·lāh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5039.htm">Strong's 5039: </a> Foolishness, wickedness, a crime, punishment in Israel בְיִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל (ḇə·yiś·rā·’êl) Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc by lying לִשְׁכַּב֙ (liš·kaḇ) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7901.htm">Strong's 7901: </a> To lie down with אֶת־ (’eṯ-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_854.htm">Strong's 854: </a> Nearness, near, with, by, at, among Jacob’s יַעֲקֹ֔ב (ya·‘ă·qōḇ) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3290.htm">Strong's 3290: </a> Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc daughter— בַּֽת־ (baṯ-) Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1323.htm">Strong's 1323: </a> A daughter a thing וְכֵ֖ן (wə·ḵên) Conjunctive waw | Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3651.htm">Strong's 3651: </a> So -- thus that should not לֹ֥א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no be done. יֵעָשֶֽׂה׃ (yê·‘ā·śeh) Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> To do, make <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/34-7.htm">Genesis 34:7 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/genesis/34-7.htm">Genesis 34:7 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/genesis/34-7.htm">Genesis 34:7 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/genesis/34-7.htm">Genesis 34:7 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/genesis/34-7.htm">Genesis 34:7 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/34-7.htm">Genesis 34:7 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/34-7.htm">Genesis 34:7 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/34-7.htm">Genesis 34:7 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/34-7.htm">Genesis 34:7 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/genesis/34-7.htm">Genesis 34:7 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/genesis/34-7.htm">OT Law: Genesis 34:7 The sons of Jacob came (Gen. 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