⁶ And Abram passed through the land as far as the site of ^(A)Shechem, to the ^[a]oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land.

⁴⁵ So Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he captured the city and killed the people who were in it; then he ^(A)tore the city down and sowed it with salt.

⁴⁶ Then all the lords of the tower of Shechem heard of it, and they entered the inner chamber of the ^[a]temple of ^(B)El-berith. ⁴⁷ And it was told to Abimelech that all the lords of the tower of Shechem were gathered together. ⁴⁸ So Abimelech went up to Mount ^(C)Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took ^[b]an axe in his hand and cut down a branch from the trees and lifted it and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry and do ^[c]likewise.” ⁴⁹ And all the people also cut down each one his branch and followed Abimelech and put them on the inner chamber and set the inner chamber on fire over those inside, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about one thousand men and women.