Geneva Bible Notes (1560): Genesis 34

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¹ ^a This example teacheth that too muche libertie is not to be giuen to youthe.

² ^/ Ebr. humbled her.

² ^! Dinah is rauished.

³ ^/ Ebr. spake to the heart of the maide.

⁴ ^b This proueth that the consent of parents is requisite in mariage, seing the very infideles did also observe it as a thing necessarie.

⁷ ^/ Ebr. multiply greatly the dowry.

⁷ ^/ Or, folie.

⁸ ^! Hamor asketh her in mariage for his sonne.

¹⁴ ^c They made the holy ordinance of God a meane to compasse their wicked purpose.

¹⁴ ^d As it is abomination for them that are baptised to joine with infideles.

¹⁵ ^e Their faute is the greater, in that thei make religion a cloak for their craft.

²⁰ ^f For the people vsed to assemble there, and justice was also ministred.

²¹ ^g Thus many pretend to speake for a publike profit, when they only speake for their owne priuate gaine and commoditie.

²² ^! The Shechemites are circumcised at the request of Jaakobs sonnes, and the persuasion of Hamor.

²³ ^h Thus they lack no kinde of persuasion, which preferre their owne commodities before the common welth.

²⁵ ^! The whoredome is reuenged.

²⁵ ^k The people are punished with their wicked princes.

²⁵ ⁱ For they were the chief of the companie.

²⁶ ^/ Ebr. mouthe of the sworde.

²⁸ ^! Jaakob reproueth his sonnes.

³⁰ ^/ Or, to be abhorred.