The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
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- KJV And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
- BSB But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.
- NKJV But the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father, and spoke deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.
- NASB But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.
- NLT But since Shechem had defiled their sister, Dinah, Jacob’s sons responded deceitfully to Shechem and his father, Hamor.
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- Job 13:7Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
- 2 Sam 13:23–29After two full years, Absalom had sheep shearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.
- Prov 24:28–29Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
- Rom 12:19Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”
- Gen 25:27–34The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
- Prov 12:18–20There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
- Ps 12:2Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
- Matt 28:13saying, “Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
- Prov 26:24–26A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.
- Isa 59:13transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
- Job 13:4But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
- Prov 12:13An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.
- Mic 7:2The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
- Judg 15:3Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines, when I harm them.”
- 1 Th 5:15See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all.
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