“And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.”
They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses. The carrying off of women and children as plunder is the final irony: the brothers who were angry at the taking of their sister have now taken the women of Shechem. The application: violence taken in the name of protecting women produces more women as victims.
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