Genesis Genesis 34:1-31
Genesis 34 narrates a rape and a massacre with no divine speech and no narrator's praise. It names the assault nebalah in Israel and the brothers' answer deceit, then withholds its verdict until Jacob's deathbed oracle curses Simeon and Levi and scatters them. Where Second-Temple readers praised the killing as righteous zeal, the canon called it violence.
Genesis Genesis 30:1-24
Genesis 30:22 is the canonical pivot of the matriarchal narrative — and-God-remembered-Rachel — and the four-fold formula that follows supplies the Lukan infancy hymns with four independent Greek lemmas. Mary inherits Rachel's vocabulary as closely as she inherits Hannah's.