Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
Parallel translations
- KJV And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
- BSB Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
- NKJV Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
- NASB Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
- NLT One day Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the young women who lived in the area.
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Quick answer
Dinah, Jacob's daughter, goes out to mingle with the Canaanite women, an outing that sets the stage for tragedy.
Overview
The chapter opens with Dinah visiting 'the daughters of the land,' the pagan Canaanites among whom Jacob had settled. The narrative does not blame Dinah, but it quietly highlights the danger of God's family becoming entangled with the surrounding culture. This episode shows the perils that came from Jacob lingering near Shechem rather than going on to Bethel as he later would.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Gen 30:21Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
- Jer 2:36Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
- 1 Tim 5:13Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
- Gen 26:34When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
- Gen 28:6Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,”
- Gen 27:46Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”
- Gen 46:15These 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.
- Gen 30:13Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.
- Titus 2:5to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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