Geneva Bible Notes: Genesis 34

Genesis 34:1 (a) This example teacheth that too muche libertie is not to be giuen to youthe.

Genesis 34:2 (/) Ebr. humbled her.

Genesis 34:2 (!) Dinah is rauished.

Genesis 34:3 (/) Ebr. spake to the heart of the maide.

Genesis 34:4 (b) This proueth that the consent of parents is requisite in mariage, seing the very infideles did also observe it as a thing necessarie.

Genesis 34:7 (/) Ebr. multiply greatly the dowry.

Genesis 34:7 (/) Or, folie.

Genesis 34:8 (!) Hamor asketh her in mariage for his sonne.

Genesis 34:14 (c) They made the holy ordinance of God a meane to compasse their wicked purpose.

Genesis 34:14 (d) As it is abomination for them that are baptised to joine with infideles.

Genesis 34:15 (e) Their faute is the greater, in that thei make religion a cloak for their craft.

Genesis 34:20 (f) For the people vsed to assemble there, and justice was also ministred.

Genesis 34:21 (g) Thus many pretend to speake for a publike profit, when they only speake for their owne priuate gaine and commoditie.

Genesis 34:22 (!) The Shechemites are circumcised at the request of Jaakobs sonnes, and the persuasion of Hamor.

Genesis 34:23 (h) Thus they lack no kinde of persuasion, which preferre their owne commodities before the common welth.

Genesis 34:25 (!) The whoredome is reuenged.

Genesis 34:25 (k) The people are punished with their wicked princes.

Genesis 34:25 (i) For they were the chief of the companie.

Genesis 34:26 (/) Ebr. mouthe of the sworde.

Genesis 34:28 (!) Jaakob reproueth his sonnes.

Genesis 34:30 (/) Or, to be abhorred.