A Sinful Reaction to Sin

Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, was defiled by Shechem the son of Hamor. Although Jacob the father of Dinah was in the land promised him, and as far as the letter of the law is concerned was complying with the command to go to the land of his fathers, Abraham and Isaac, he tarried for about ten years in the vicinity of Shechem. Hamor the father of Shechem was disturbed by the immoral conduct of his son, and he was fearful of the consequences of his son's sinful liberties taken with Dinah....