“And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.”
Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male. The attack on the third day — when the men are most vulnerable from circumcision — is the execution of the plan. The righteous anger at Dinah's violation has been converted into mass murder of men who had no part in what Shechem did. The application: the violence that begins as justice for one person's violation has become the violent death of an entire city's male population.
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