Outside of the women of their own family, Simeon and Levi sympathy does not extend to women and children. The fact that the brothers punished everyone for the oppressive and violent behavior of rape is a radical idea, they take women and children as their prizes (verses 27-29). The text indicates that the brothers treated the women of the town they raided as objects like captured animals or gold. Although the severity of Dinah's brothers actions are difficult to justify, the case still stands that the massacre occurred as a consequence of the rape. The brothers kill other men, plunder a town, and capture the women and children because the Shechemites participated in the “oppression of their sister” (verse
Outside of the women of their own family, Simeon and Levi sympathy does not extend to women and children. The fact that the brothers punished everyone for the oppressive and violent behavior of rape is a radical idea, they take women and children as their prizes (verses 27-29). The text indicates that the brothers treated the women of the town they raided as objects like captured animals or gold. Although the severity of Dinah's brothers actions are difficult to justify, the case still stands that the massacre occurred as a consequence of the rape. The brothers kill other men, plunder a town, and capture the women and children because the Shechemites participated in the “oppression of their sister” (verse