want to also point out that in the book of Jubilees, it describes Dinah as"a little girl" of 12 years old. [In this culture, the Shechemite would have been concidered a pediphile]. In this book it states that the brothers did good by killing this group of men, because they dared defile a Israelite virgin. It was forbidden for the Israelites to marry into this group of people because these people worshiped a pagan god named Moloch. This religion involved burning a child alive and committed impurity and defiled children. According to this account, Dinah could not have married into such a clan. Of course, according to the Genesis account they were willing to convert to Judaism. Another point of view. Hmmm

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