SEV Biblia, Chapter 34:23
Sus ganados, y su hacienda y todas sus bestias, serán nuestras; solamente convengamos con ellos, y habitarán con nosotros.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 34:23
Verse 23. Shall not their cattle and their substance - be ours? This was a bait held out for the poor unsuspecting people of Hamor by their prince and his son, who were not much less deceived than the people themselves.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 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 tru 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, an harden the hearts of many to destruction. The crimes of others form n excuse for us. Alas! how one sin leads on to another, and, like flame of fire, spread desolation in every direction! Foolish pleasures lea to seduction; seduction produces wrath; wrath thirsts for revenge; the thirst of revenge has recourse to treachery; treachery issues is murder; and murder is followed by other lawless actions. Were we to trace the history of unlawful commerce between the sexes, we shoul find it, more than any other sin, ending in blood __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
מקנהם 4735 וקנינם 7075 וכל 3605 בהמתם 929 הלוא 3808 לנו הם 1992 אך 389 נאותה 225 להם וישׁבו 3427 אתנו׃ 854
