Genesis 34:29
And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
Genesis 34:29 in other translations
| BSB | They carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses. |
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| WEB | and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house. |
| ASV | and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive and made a prey, even all that was in the house. |
| YLT | and all their wealth, and all their infants, and their wives they have taken captive, and they spoil also all that is in the house. |
| DARBY | and all their goods, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and plundered them, and all that was in the houses. |
| BBE | And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste. |
| Webster | And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives they took captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house. |
What does Genesis 34:29 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 34:20-31
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 true 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…
Genesis 34:29 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Genesis 34:28
They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
- Genesis 34:29
And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
- Genesis 34:30
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
Genesis 34:29 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y toda su hacienda; se llevaron cautivos á todos sus niños y sus mujeres, y robaron todo lo que había en casa. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et ils emmenèrent et pillèrent tous leurs biens, et tous leurs petits enfants, et leurs femmes, et tout ce qui était dans les maisons. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | und all ihr Vermögen und alle ihre Kinder und ihre Weiber führten sie gefangen hinweg und raubten sie, und alles, was in den Häusern war. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | parvulos quoque eorum et uxores duxerunt captivas. |