Genesis 34:23 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 34:23

Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

KJV

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YLT

their cattle, and their substance, and all their beasts--are they not ours? only let us consent to them, and they dwell with us.'

DBT

Their cattle, and their possessions, and every beast of theirs, shall they not be ours? only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.

ASV

Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

WEB

Will not their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell among us.”

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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11 verses on the floor

1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Job 1:3
His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
Proverbs 1:12–13
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Exodus 10:24
And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you.
Exodus 20:17
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

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Does one man sin, and will they be wroth with all the town? Must the innocent fall with the guilty? This was barbarous indeed. [4.] But that which above all aggravated the cruelty was the most perfidious treachery that was in it.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), and see what was the issue; instead of making themselves masters of the wealth of Jacob's family, Jacob's family become masters of their wealth. Note, Those who unjustly grasp at that which is another's justly lose that which is their own. Here is Jacob's resentment of this bloody deed of Simeon and Levi,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Shall not their cattle and their substance be ours? - They observed that Jacob's sons were industrious, thriving people, and promised themselves and their neighbours advantage by an alliance with them: it would improve ground and trade, and bring money into their country.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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