25 On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi,(A) Dinah’s brothers, took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and killed every male. 26 They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and went away. 27 Jacob’s other sons came to the slaughter and plundered the city because their sister had been defiled. 28 They took their sheep, cattle, donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field. 29 They captured all their possessions, children, and wives and plundered everything in the houses.

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32 Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt,(A) were buried at Shechem in the parcel of land Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for 100 qesitahs.[a](B) It was an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 24:32 The value of this currency is unknown.

so He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property[a] that Jacob(A) had given his son Joseph.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. John 4:5 Lit piece of land

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