And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
Parallel translations
- WEB Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to 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 30:21And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
- Jer 2:36Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
- 1 Tim 5:13And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
- Gen 26:34And 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:
- Gen 28:6When 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;
- Gen 27:46And 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?
- Gen 46:15These 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.
- Gen 30:13And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
- Titus 2:5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not 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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