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Dinah 
Dinah is the only daughter of Jacob. Her mother is Leah, and Dinah is Leah's seventh child and Jacob's eleventh child, only to be followed by the two sons of Rachel, Joseph and Benjamin.
On account of Dinah's rape by Shechem the Hivite (who actually wished to marry her, even afterwards) Dinah's brothers Simeon (Jacob's son nr 2 and nr 1 after Reuben sleeps with Bilhah) and Levi (Jacob's son nr 3, and later nr 2) first manage to make the men of Shechem's town circumcize themselves and then kill them all by sword and loot the place (that means steal all the live stock, women and children). When Jacob heard of this he mentioned nothing about any ethical rules that were transgressed but rather his fear for political or military retaliation.
On his deathbed Jacob curses the brothers and disperses them into Israel. The tribe of Levi became the landless priest clan, and Simeon was assimilated by Judah. Judah was son number 4, but moved up the list because of the actions of his three brothers Reuben, Simeon and Levi.
The name Dinah is the feminine form of Dan.
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