Genesis 34:31
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They answered: Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?

Genesis 34:30
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.

Genesis 35:1
In the mean time God said to Jacob: Arise and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau, thy brother.

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They answered: Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?

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Genesis 34:13 The sons of Jacob answered Sichem and his father deceitfully, being enraged at the deflowering of their sister:

Genesis 49:7 Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath, because it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.

Proverbs 6:34 Nor will he yield to any man's prayers, nor will he accept for satisfaction ever so many gifts.

Context
The Revenge of Dinah's Brothers
30And 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. 31They answered: Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?
Lexicon
But [Simeon and Levi] answered,
וַיֹּאמְר֑וּ (way·yō·mə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

“Should he have treated
יַעֲשֶׂ֖ה (ya·‘ă·śeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

our sister
אֲחוֹתֵֽנוּ׃ (’ă·ḥō·w·ṯê·nū)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 269: Sister -- a sister

like a prostitute?”
הַכְזוֹנָ֕ה (haḵ·zō·w·nāh)
Article, Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry


Additional Translations
But Simeon and Levi answered, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot?

And they said, Nay, but shall they treat our sister as an harlot?

And they said, Should people deal with our sister as with a harlot?

And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

And they said, Should he deal with our sister, as with a harlot?

They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"

And they say, 'As a harlot doth he make our sister?'
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