The daughter of Jacob by Leah, Jacob's cousin. Dinah was born in Paddan-aram. As a young woman in Canaan, she was seduced by Shechem, the son of Havor the Hivite. When Shechem asked to marry Dinah, the sons of Jacob plotted revenge by agreeing to the match only if all of the males of the city were circumsized. On the third day after the procedures-when all the men "were sore" (Genesis 34:25)-Dinah's brothers Simeon and Levi led an attack against the city and killed Shechem, his father, and all the other towns' men. The town was plundered, and all the livestock and women and children were taken. Jacob cursed his sons' anger; the decline of the tribes of Simeon and Levi can be traced to this event. Dinah is mentioned as going with her father to Egypt.