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King James Bible - Genesis 34:17

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SEV Biblia, Chapter 34:17

Mas si no nos prestareis oído para circuncidaros, tomaremos nuestra hija, y nos iremos.

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Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 34:17

Verse 17. Then will we take our daughter, and we will he gone.] It is natural to suppose that the tribe of Hamor was very inconsiderable, else they would not have sought an alliance with the family of Jacob, and have come so readily into a painful, disgraceful measure, without having either the sanction of Divine authority or reason; for it does not appear that the sons of Jacob urged either. And they are threatened here that if they do not agree to be circumcised, Dinah shall be taken from them, and restored to her family; and this is probably what the Shechemites saw they had not power at present to prevent.

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Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 1-19 - Young persons, especially females, are never so safe and well off a under the care of pious parents. Their own ignorance, and the flatter and artifices of designing, wicked people, who are ever laying snare for them, expose them to great danger. They are their own enemies in they desire to go abroad, especially alone, among strangers to tru religion. Those parents are very wrong who do not hinder their children from needlessly exposing themselves to danger. Indulged children, lik Dinah, often become a grief and shame to their families. Her pretenc was, to see the daughters of the land, to see how they dressed, and ho they danced, and what was fashionable among them; she went to see, ye that was not all, she went to be seen too. She went to get acquaintanc with the Canaanites, and to learn their ways. See what came of Dinah' gadding. The beginning of sin is as the letting forth of water. Ho great a matter does a little fire kindle! We should carefully avoid all occasions of sin and approaches to it.

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Original Hebrew

ואם 518 לא 3808 תשׁמעו 8085 אלינו 413 להמול 4135 ולקחנו 3947 את 853 בתנו 1323 והלכנו׃ 1980