“O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.”
Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased. The dissociation from the violent council — let me not enter — is Jacob's continuing moral distance from the Shechem massacre, as in Genesis 34:30. The application: the patriarch who condemned the act in life continues to separate from it in death.
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