When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.

You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck.”

“What have you done?” Laban demanded of Jacob. “You’ve deceived me and carried away my daughters as if they were captives of war!

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and left.

As one who is above your brothers, I give to you the mountain slope, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”

In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city and slaughtered every male.