OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 34:7

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The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing that ought not to be done.

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Verse 7. In Israel, or against the honour and peace of their father and all his family.—An unlawful act, which some nevertheless commit without scruple, and even dare to represent as a matter of small consequence if they marry afterwards!

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