“And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.”
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and violated her. The three verbs — saw, took, violated — are the anatomy of sexual assault. The sequence from seeing to taking to violating is the same sequence as Genesis 6:2 (the sons of God saw and took) and 2 Samuel 11:2-4 (David saw and took Bathsheba). The application: the narrative names what happened to Dinah without softening it. The violation of a person's bodily integrity is a violation of the image of God in them.
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