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Won`t their cattle and their substance and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."
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A Decision Driven by Greed
Commentators agree that the men of Shechem were not motivated by a sincere desire to join God's people. Their leaders persuaded them with an appeal to pure greed, arguing that by agreeing to the terms, they would eventually absorb all of Jacob's family's considerable wealth and livestock.
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Genesis
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18th Century
Presbyterian
This chapter records the rape of Dinah and the revenge of her brothers.
(Genesis 34:1–5)
Dinah went out to see the daught…
19th Century
Anglican
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29).
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Shall not their cattle, and their substance, and every beast of theirs, [be] ours ? &c.] Which …
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