ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the thesis in relation to the well-known story of Shechem's seduction of Dinah in Genesis 34. Jacob’s comments about Simeon and Levi reveal features characteristic of his remarks about his other sons. Seduction, Witchcraft, and Bestiality from a scribe of the Deuteronomic school set down certain rules about seduction, witchcraft, and bestiality in the Book of the Covenant. Ishmael's loss of primogeniture to Isaac, Esau's to Jacob, Reuben's to Joseph, Manasseh's to Ephraim constitutes one pattern of similar developments over succeeding generations which if scanned narratives from Genesis through to the accounts of the history of the kings is demonstrated many times over. Jacob true to his stance in the account of the incident in Genesis 34, in a farewell address to his assembled sons in Genesis 49 takes up his condemnation of Simeon and Levi’s action.
