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Lesson 52- Rape of Dinah and its Revenge (Genesis 34:1-31)
1. Dinah, daughter of Leah and Jacob is raped by Shechem, son of Hamor. Shechem eventually loves Dinah and wishes to marry her. He belongs to the leading family of the town, a “Hivite”.
2. Jacob seems passive in the whole affair. Hamor, the father of Shechem wants to set things right by marriage. Hamor’s offer is not only the Dinah-Shechem marriage but intermarriage between the groups, with appropriate rights to settle in the land.
3. No matter how much is the bride price or a gift to the family of the bride, Shechem wants to marry Dinah at any cost. In response to the Hamor and Shechem’s offer, the sons of Jacob or brothers of Dinah demand circumcision of all males if there is to be any intermarriage and settlement in the land.
4. Hamor, Shechem and his people agreed to the condition and every male were circumcised. But on the third day, after every male’s circumcision, Dinah’s brother’s Samuel and Levi killed Hamor, Shechem and every male and took Dinah from their house. Then the other sons of Jacob plundered the whole city and took away their flocks, herds, donkeys and their wealth, children and wives.
5. The revenge of his sons creates fear in Jacob and makes things more difficult for the family in the face of retaliation by Canaanites and Perizzites.

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