Dinah
The daughter of Jacob and Leah. When the family camped near Shechem she went out to visit the women of the land, and Shechem son of Hamor seized and violated her, then wanted to marry her. Hamor proposed an alliance between the two peoples, and Jacob's sons answered deceitfully, requiring every male in the city to be circumcised. On the third day, while the men were still in pain, Simeon and Levi took their swords and killed them all. Jacob condemned the act then, and again on his deathbed.
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Where in scripture
GenesisAfterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
Genesis 30:21
Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
Genesis 34:1 — Goes out among the women of the land
His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
Genesis 34:3
Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.
Genesis 34:5
The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
Genesis 34:13
On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
Genesis 34:25
They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
Genesis 34:26
These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
Genesis 46:15
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.
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