In Genesis, chapter thirty-four, verse one, Dinah, the daughter of Leah, goes out to see the young women that live in the area. Every child in the family will eventually explore the place they reside. Whether good or bad, no one knows until they go and find out for themselves.
Jacob settled near the pagan city of Shechem rather than the home of his father Isaac, who had commanded him to go. Jacob and his large family have settled outside of the city of Shechem in Canaan. Some time may have passed since Jacob purchased the section of land they occupied and on which they built an altar to the Lord. His sons are known as men. They mention Jacob’s children frequently according to which of his wives is their mother. Jacob himself regards them differently, as he demonstrated when presenting them to his brother Esau in reverse order of his apparent affection for them.
Dinah is the only daughter explicitly mentioned among Jacob’s children. In this case, Dinah is a crucial figure in the history of Jacob’s family. She is the daughter of Leah, Jacob’s famously unloved wife. Leah’s other birth children include Simeon and Levi, who will also figure prominently to follow. Dinah built a social relationship with some of the women of Shechem, or she was seeking to do so. The passage does not condemn her for this action nor suggests that she was doing anything unwise or inappropriate.
Jacob later bitterly regrets his choice. Hamor also named Shechem, rapes Jacob’s daughter Dinah, who belongs to Leah. Shechem decides he loves Dinah and wants to marry her. Dinah’s brothers are outraged. Hamor and Shechem ask for Dinah to marry Shechem as a wife and for their people to intermarry. Jacob’s brothers pretend to agree, provided the men are circumcised. Instead, while the town men are recuperating, Dinah’s brothers, Levi and Simeon, lead a slaughter of all the men. After the tragic incident with Dinah, Jacob finally goes to Bethel and destroys all the foreign idols in his home.