Some time later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah. Dinah is the only daughter named in Jacob's family — she will be central to the crisis of Genesis 34. The simple notation of her birth — without the competitive naming theology of the sons — is the narrative's quiet introduction of a character whose story will be painful. The application: the quiet births that receive the simplest notations are sometimes the births of the characters who will carry the story's most significant suffering.

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