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Bible study · Genesis 34:1-31

Genesis 34: Dinah

Read Genesis 34:1-31 before you meet.

In a few lines

Shechem wronged Jacob's daughter Dinah. Jacob kept silent; his sons answered with deceit, as Jacob once had, and Simeon and Levi killed the men of the city. Jacob said, "You have troubled me," and years later cursed their anger. God isn't named anywhere in the chapter; he speaks again in the next.

The verse to carry

“Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.””

Genesis 34:30

To talk about

  1. 1. Jacob "held his peace" and his sons acted. What do you notice about how this family handled a terrible wrong?

  2. 2. The brothers were angry at a real wrong. Where does the line fall between justice and revenge?

  3. 3. God isn't named in this chapter, and speaks again in the next. How do you hold on when God seems silent?

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