Genesis 34:29
What does Genesis 34:29 mean?
A plain-English look at Genesis 34:29 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive and made a prey, even all that was in the house.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive and made a prey, even all that was in the house.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and all their wealth, and all their infants, and their wives they have taken captive, and they spoil also all that <FI>is<Fi> in the house.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And their children and wives they took captive.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890and all their goods, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and plundered them, and all that was in the houses.
Context
v.28They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field;
v.29This passage
v.30And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
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