Genesis 34:1
New International Version
Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land.

New Living Translation
One day Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the young women who lived in the area.

English Standard Version
Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land.

Berean Standard Bible
Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.

King James Bible
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

New King James Version
Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

New American Standard Bible
Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.

NASB 1995
Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.

NASB 1977
Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Amplified Bible
Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out [unescorted] to visit the girls of the land.

Christian Standard Bible
Leah’s daughter Dinah, whom Leah bore to Jacob, went out to see some of the young women of the area.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see some of the young women of the area.

American Standard Version
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Contemporary English Version
Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the women who lived nearby.

English Revised Version
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Dinah, daughter of Leah and Jacob, went out to visit some of the Canaanite women.

Good News Translation
One day Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the Canaanite women.

International Standard Version
Some time later, Dinah, Leah's daughter whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land.

Majority Standard Bible
Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.

NET Bible
Now Dinah, Leah's daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went to meet the young women of the land.

New Heart English Bible
Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the region.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

World English Bible
Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she has borne to Jacob, goes out to look on the daughters of the land,

Young's Literal Translation
And Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she hath borne to Jacob, goeth out to look on the daughters of the land,

Smith's Literal Translation
And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she brought forth to Jacob, will go forth to see the daughters of the land.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Dina the daughter of Lia went out to see the women of that country.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Then Dinah, the daughter of Leah, went out to see the women of that region.

New American Bible
Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit some of the women of the land.

New Revised Standard Version
Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the region.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
AND Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the native girls.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And Dinah came out, daughter of Leah, who was begotten by Yaquuv, to see the daughters of the place.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Dina, the daughter of Lea, whom she bore to Jacob, went forth to observe the daughters of the inhabitants.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Defiling of Dinah
1Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land. 2When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.…

Cross References
Genesis 30:21
After that, Leah gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.

Genesis 46:15
These are the sons of Leah born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. The total number of sons and daughters was thirty-three.

2 Samuel 13:1-22
After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom. / Amnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to do anything to her. / Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man, ...

Judges 19:24
Look, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine, and you can use them and do with them as you wish. But do not do such a vile thing to this man.”

Deuteronomy 22:25-27
But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die. / Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him. / When he found her in the field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.

2 Samuel 11:2-4
One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman. / So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” / Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.

Leviticus 19:29
You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

Exodus 22:16-17
If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged in marriage and sleeps with her, he must pay the full dowry for her to be his wife. / If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.

Deuteronomy 22:28-29
If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered, / then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.

2 Samuel 13:11-14
And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come lie with me, my sister!” / “No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not violate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing! / Where could I ever take my shame? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel! Please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.” ...

1 Corinthians 6:18-20
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. / Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; / you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; / each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, / not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

1 Peter 3:3-4
Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes, / but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.

Proverbs 7:10-12
Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart. / She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home. / Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.

1 Timothy 2:9-10
Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, / but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.


Treasury of Scripture

And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

A.

Genesis 30:21
And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

Genesis 46:15
These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.

the daughters.

Genesis 26:34
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

Genesis 27:46
And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

Genesis 28:6
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

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Genesis 34
1. Dinah is ravished by Shechem.
4. He requests to marry her.
13. The sons of Jacob offer the condition of circumcision to the Shechemites.
20. Hamor and Shechem persuade them to accept it.
25. The sons of Jacob upon that advantage slay them, and spoil their city.
30. Jacob reproves Simeon and Levi.














Now Dinah
The name "Dinah" means "judged" or "vindicated" in Hebrew. As the only named daughter of Jacob, Dinah's account is significant in the narrative of Genesis. Her introduction here sets the stage for a pivotal and troubling event in the history of Jacob's family. The mention of her name first emphasizes her role and the importance of her actions in the unfolding story.

the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob
This phrase highlights Dinah's lineage, emphasizing her connection to Leah, Jacob's first wife. Leah's children often faced tension with those of Rachel, Jacob's other wife, which is a recurring theme in the family dynamics of Jacob's household. The mention of Leah here may suggest underlying familial tensions and the complex relationships within Jacob's family.

went out
The phrase "went out" indicates Dinah's active decision to leave her home. In the cultural and historical context of the ancient Near East, a young woman venturing out alone could be seen as unusual and potentially dangerous. This action sets the stage for the events that follow and reflects Dinah's agency, albeit within a patriarchal society.

to visit the daughters of the land
This phrase suggests Dinah's intention to socialize and perhaps form connections with the local women. The "daughters of the land" refers to the women of Shechem, a Canaanite city. This interaction between Dinah and the local inhabitants foreshadows the cultural and moral conflicts that arise between Jacob's family and the Canaanites. It also highlights the theme of separation and interaction between God's chosen people and the surrounding nations, a recurring motif in the Old Testament.

XXXIV.

(1) Dinah . . . went out to see the daughters of the land.--Those commentators who imagine that Jacob sojourned only twenty years at Haran are obliged to suppose that he remained two or more years at Succoth, and some eight years at Shechem, before this event happened, leaving only one more year for the interval between Dinah's dishonour and the sale of Joseph to the Ishmaelites. But even so, if Dinah was now not more than fourteen, there would be left a period of only nine years, in which Leah has to bear six sons and a daughter, with a long interval of barrenness, during which Zilpah was given to Jacob and bears two sons. But besides this impossibility, Jacob evidently remained at Succoth only until he was shalem, sound and whole from his sprain, and Dinah's visit was one of curiosity, for she went "to see the daughters of the land," that is, she wanted, as Abravanel says, to see what the native women were like, and how they dressed themselves. Josephus says that she took the opportunity of a festival at Shechem; but as neither her father nor brothers knew of her going, but were with their cattle as usual, it is probable that with one or two women only she slipped away from her father's camp and paid the penalty of her girlish curiosity. But she would feel no such curiosity after being a year or two at Shechem, so that it is probable that her dishonour took place within a few weeks after Jacob's arrival there. So, too, Hamor's words in Genesis 34:21-22 plainly show that Jacob was a new comer; for he proposes that the people should "let them dwell in the land," and therefore consent to the condition required by them that the Hivites should be circumcised. It would have been absurd thus to speak if Jacob had already dwelt there eight years with no apparent intention of going away.

Verse 1. - And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, - if Dinah was born before Joseph (Genesis 30:21) she was probably in her seventh year when Jacob reached Succoth (Genesis 33:17); but it does not follow that she was only six or seven years of age when the incident about to be described occurred (Tuch, Bohlen). If Jacob stayed two years at Succoth and eight in Shechem (Petavius), and if, as is probable, his residence in Shechem terminated with his daughter's dishonor (Lange), and if, moreover, Joseph s sale into Egypt happened soon after (Hengstenberg), Dinah may at this time have been in her sixteenth or seventeenth year (Kurtz). Yet there is no reason why she should not have been younger, say between thirteen and fifteen (Keil, Lange, Kalisch, Murphy, et alii), since in the East females attain to puberty at the age of twelve, and sometimes earlier (Delitzsch) - went out - it is not implied that this was the first occasion on which Dinah left her mother's tent to mingle with the city maidens in Shechem: the expression is equivalent to "once upon a time she went out" (Hengstenberg) - to see the daughters of the land - who were gathered at a festive entertainment (Josephus, 'Ant.,' 1:21, 1), a not improbable supposition (Kurtz), though the language rather indicates the paying of a friendly visit (Lange), or the habitual practice of associating with the Shechemite women (Bush), in their social entertainments, if not in their religious festivals.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Now Dinah,
דִינָה֙ (ḏî·nāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 1783: Dinah -- daughter of Jacob

the daughter
בַּת־ (baṯ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 1323: A daughter

Leah
לֵאָ֔ה (lê·’āh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3812: Leah -- 'weary', a wife of Jacob

had borne
יָלְדָ֖ה (yā·lə·ḏāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

to Jacob,
לְיַעֲקֹ֑ב (lə·ya·‘ă·qōḇ)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3290: Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc

went out
וַתֵּצֵ֤א (wat·tê·ṣê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

to visit
לִרְא֖וֹת (lir·’ō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7200: To see

the daughters
בִּבְנ֥וֹת (biḇ·nō·wṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 1323: A daughter

of the land.
הָאָֽרֶץ׃ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land


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