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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 34, Verse 28

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The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
King James Version
They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which [was] in the city, and that which [was] in the field,
American Standard Version
They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field;
New English Translation
They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.
World English Bible
They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,
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And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that [was] in the house.
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.
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And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
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And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
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Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that [were] with him, Put away the strange gods that [are] among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
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And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
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And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which [were] in their hand, and [all their] earrings which [were] in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which [was] by Shechem.
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And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that [were] round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
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So Jacob came to Luz, which [is] in the land of Canaan, that [is], Bethel, he and all the people that [were] with him.
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And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.