Quotes about Family
But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
- Genesis 34:8
But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.
- Genesis 34:13
“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.
- Genesis 34:14
But if you will not agree to be circumcised, then we will take our sister and go.”
- Genesis 34:17
Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
- Genesis 34:25
They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
- Genesis 34:26
Jacob’s other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.
- Genesis 34:27
But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
- Genesis 34:31
While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
- Genesis 35:22
The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
- Genesis 35:24
The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
- Genesis 35:25
Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
- Genesis 35:27