Dina דינה
daughter of Jacob and Leah
The Torah records her birth in one line, after Leah's six sons: "and afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah." Her whole story is in chapter thirty-four: she went out to see the daughters of the land, and the son of the ruler of Shechem took her by force. Her brothers' answer was the circumcision of the men of the city and the swords of Shimon and Levi on the third day.
The sages read the first word of the chapter—"and Dinah went out"—as the key to the rest, and connect it with her mother: "and Leah went out to meet him." But the same midrash does not excuse the brothers either: Jacob rebuked them then and again on his deathbed.
What became of her afterwards the Torah does not say. Tradition adds two continuations—both as tradition and not as fact: some say she became the wife of Job; others that Asenath, Joseph's wife, was her daughter.
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Tanakh
- Genesis 30:21 — her birth
- Genesis 34 — Shechem and the brothers' answer
Chazal: Mishnah, Talmud, midrash, Zohar
- Bereshit Rabbah 80:1 — «and Dinah went out»
- Bava Batra 15b — a tradition: Dinah as the wife of Job
- Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer 38 — a tradition: Asenath as the daughter of Dinah
Basis: stated in the Tanakh.