BRAGADAYJAH 117

Now the sons of Israel, Simeon and Levi waited until the third day, when all of the circumcised of the city were well sore from the circumcision; and swords in hand they entered the city, and fell upon, and slaughtered every man of the city, including Hamor and Shechem. Not only that, they spoiled and ransacked the city, taking all their valuables, because of what had been done to their sister. They took their sheep, their oxen, including their wives and young children; everything within the city and without was takes as booty. But when Israel saw what his sons had done, he chastised them and said that their actions were bound to attract and stir up the other inhabitants of the land, to wit, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, whom he feared would gather together and attack his family and kill him and his household and take all that he had. But Simeon and Levi were unrepentant, and asked their father, “should we allow them to abuse our sister and threat her like a harlot and go unpunished?” And God appeared unto Israel and told him to get going and go to Bethel and remain there, and make an altar unto God “like you did when you fled from your brother Esau.” So Israel rose up, he and his household and departed for Bethel. But before leaving, Israel told his people, to leave all the strange gods they had found in Hamor’s city behind. “We are going to Bethel and there, I will build an altar and worship the true God; the God that answered me in the day of my distress and have been with me ever since wherever I went.” More