4509. 'And all their young children' means all innocence. This is clear from the meaning of 'a young child' as innocence, dealt with in 430, 2126, 3183.
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And the sons of Jacobcame out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.