Genesis 34:1
And Dina the daughter of Lia went out to see the women of that country.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Egressa est autem Dina filia Liæ ut videret mulieres regionis illius.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἐξῆλθεν δὲ Δείνα ἡ θυγάτηρ Λείας, ἣν ἔτεκεν τῷ Ἰακώβ, καταμαθεῖν τὰς θυγατέρας τῶν ἐνχωρίων.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתֵּצֵ֤א דִינָה֙ בַּת לֵאָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָלְדָ֖ה לְיַעֲקֹ֑ב לִרְא֖וֹת בִּבְנ֥וֹת הָאָֽרֶץ
Haydock's commentary
Country, when a great festival was celebrated. (Josephus, Antiquities i. 18.[21.?]) Dina was urged by curiosity to see and to be seen. Let others take example from her, and beware of associating with infidels, and of opening their hearts to pleasure at fairs and nocturnal meetings.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory the Great The Book of Pastoral Rule, How they are to be admonished who lament sins of deed, and those who lament only sins of thought
They are to be admonished to build upon the mercy which they crave, lest they perish through the force of immoderate affliction. For the Lord would not set sins to be deplored before the eyes of offenders, were it His will to smite them with strict severity Himself. For it is evident that it has been His will to hide from His own judgment those whom in anticipation He has made judges of themselves. For hence it is written, Let us come beforehand before the face of the Lord in confession ( Ps. xciv. 2 ). Hence through Paul it is said, If we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged ( 1 Cor. xi. 31 ). And again, they are to be admonished so to be confident in hope as not to grow torpid in careless security. For commonly the crafty foe, when he sees the soul which he trips up by sin to be afflicted for its fall, seduces it by the blandishments of baneful security. …