American Standard Version
"And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot? "
— Genesis 34:31, American Standard Version
“And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot? ”
“They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"”
“But Simeon and Levi replied,“Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?””
“They answered: Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet? ”
“But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?”
“And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot? ”
They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field;
and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive and made a prey, even all that was in the house.
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot?