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Shall not their cattell, and their substance, and euery beast of theirs bee ours? onely let vs consent vnto them, and they will dwell with vs.

And it came to passe on the thirde day when they were sore, that two of the sonnes of Iacob, Simeon and Leui, Dinahs brethren, tooke each man his sword and came vpon the citie boldly, and slew all the males.

And they slew Hamor and Shechem his sonne, with the edge of the sword, and tooke Dinah out of Shechems house, and went out.

The sonnes of Iacob came vpon the slaine, and spoiled the citie, because they had defiled their sister.

They tooke their sheepe, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the citie, and that which was in the field.

And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wiues tooke they captiue, and spoiled euen all that was in the house.

And Iacob said to Simeon and Leui, Ye haue troubled me to make me to stinke among the inhabitants of the land, amongst the Canaanites, and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselues together against me, and slay me, and I shal be destroyed, I and my house.

And they said, Should hee deale with our sister, as with an harlot?

And they gaue vnto Iacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their eare-rings which were in their eares, and Iacob hid them vnder the oke which was by Shechem.

And they iourneyed: and the terrour of God was vpon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sonnes of Iacob.

And they iourneyed from Bethel: and there was but a litle way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel traueiled, and she had hard labour.

For their riches were more then that they might dwell together: and the land wherein they were strangers, could not beare them, because of their cattell.

And when his brethren saw that their father loued him more then all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speake peaceably vnto him.

And Ioseph dreamed a dreame, and he told it his brethren, and they hated him yet the more.

And his brethren saide to him, Shalt thou indeed reigne ouer vs? or shalt thou indeed haue dominion ouer vs? and they hated him yet the more, for his dreames, and for his words.

And he said, I seeke my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feede their flockes.

And the man said, They are departed hence: for I heard them say, Let vs goe to Dothan. And Ioseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.

And when they saw him a farre off, euen before he came neere vnto them, they conspired against him, to slay him.

And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer commeth.

And it came to passe when Ioseph was come vnto his brethren, that they stript Ioseph out of his coate, his coat of many colours that was on him.