27. And when they were gone out, the other sons of Jacob came upon the slain; and plundered the city in revenge of the rape.
28. And they took their sheep and their herds and their asses, wasting all they had in their houses and in the fields,
29. and their children and wives they took captive,
30. And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land: we are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house, shall be destroyed.
31. They answered: Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?