Dinah Facts for 3-8 Year Olds

Categories: Jacob

• Dinah is the seventh child and only daughter of Jacob and Leah.
• No explanation is given for her name.
• There is a story about her in Genesis 34.
• Her family lives in Shechem.
• One day Dinah goes out by herself.
• “Shechem, son of the ruler of that area, sees her.”
• He takes her home and forces himself upon her.
• Afterwards he is very sorry and wants her for his wife.
• She stays with him while he goes to her family.
• Dinah needs the approval of her father to marry anyone.
• Shechem is willing to do anything.
• Unfortunately, Dinah’s brothers intervene and wipe out the whole town.
• They take Dinah back home with them.
• Some people think Dinah later became the wife of Job.
• Others think she is sent to Egypt where Potiphera adopts her. That makes her the mother of Asenath, the woman who marries Joseph.
• Sadly, Dinah’s words about her situation are never recorded.