New American Bible, Revised Edition

Genesis 34:24-30 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

24. All who went out of the gate of the city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and all the males, all those who went out of the gate of the city, were circumcised.

25. On the third day, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, brothers of Dinah, each took his sword, advanced against the unsuspecting city and massacred all the males.

26. After they had killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, they took Dinah from Shechem’s house and left.

27. Then the other sons of Jacob followed up the slaughter and sacked the city because their sister had been defiled.

28. They took their sheep, cattle and donkeys, whatever was in the city and in the surrounding country.

29. They carried off all their wealth, their children, and their women, and looted whatever was in the houses.

30. Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: “You have brought trouble upon me by making me repugnant to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I have so few men that, if these people unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be wiped out.”