- Bible
- Genesis
- Chapter 34
- Verse 1
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
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Gill's Exposition
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob,....
Who is supposed to be at this time about fourteen or fifteen years of age: for that she was but about nine or ten years old is not to…
- Dinah’s Dishonor This chapter records the rape of Dinah and the revenge of her brothers. Gen 34:1-5 Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land. The Jewish doctors of a later period fix the…
Adam Clarke
And Dinah - went out to see the daughters of the land - It is supposed that Jacob had been now about seven or eight years in the land, and that Dinah, who was about seven years of age when Jacob came…
Dinah was, for aught that appears, Jacob's only daughter, and we may suppose her therefore the mother's fondling and the darling of the family, and yet she proves neither a joy nor a credit to them;…
Cambridge Bible
Dinah See Gen 30:21; Gen 31:41, from which passages the age of Dinah at the time of Jacob's flight from Haran may be computed. She was nearly the last of Jacob's children born in Haran.
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