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Hey friends, I'm Rachel Grohl and I'm your host for the Hearing Jesus Podcast, where I help you to know God and to make him known.

Today we are continuing our series with the story of Dinah. And if you're not familiar with Dinah, well, then this is a perfect episode for you.

And if you're just joining us, I would encourage you to go back to the beginning of the series and work your way through.

These episodes are not going anywhere. It's evergreen content so you can just go at your own pace.

And then if you want to dive a little bit deeper, on our Patreon page, we have journaling prompts

that go along with each episode because I don't know about you, but for me, journaling is one

of those things that helps me get the information from my head to my heart. And so the links for all of that are in the show notes. And so today's

story comes from Genesis chapter 34. I'm going to read starting at verse 1. It says, now Dinah,

the daughter Leah had born to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land. When Shechem, son of Hamor, the Hivite, the ruler of that

area, saw her, he took her and raped her. His heart was drawn to Dinah, daughter of Jacob.

He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her, and Shecab said to his father, Hamor,

get me this girl as my wife. When Jacob heard that his daughter

Dinah had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his livestock, so he did nothing

about it until they came home. Then Shekham's father, Hamor, went out to talk with Jacob. Meanwhile,

Jacob's sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were

shocked and furious

because Shechem had done an outrageous thing in Israel by sleeping with Jacob's daughter,

a thing that should not be done. But Hamor said to them, My son Shechem has his heart set

on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife. Intermarry with us. Give us your daughters and take our daughters for

yourselves. You can settle among us. The land is open to you. Live in it, trade in it, and inquire property in it.

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