Genesis 34:7
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.
Note Or against Israel
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.
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.
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- were
- Genesis 46:7; 2 Samuel 13:21
- wrought
- Exodus 19:5, 6; Deuteronomy 22:21; Joshua 7:15; Judges 19:22–25; Judges 20:6; 2 Samuel 13:12, 13; Psalm 93:5; Proverbs 7:7; 1 Peter 2:9
- thing
- Genesis 20:9; Leviticus 4:2, 13, 27; Deuteronomy 23:17; 1 Corinthians 6:18; 1 Corinthians 10:8; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5; 1 Timothy 5:13; Hebrews 13:4; James 3:10