Dinah bat Jacob by Leah - twin of Zebulon

• Preferred Name: Dinah bat Jacob by Leah - twin of Zebulon^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Alternate Name: Diná
  
• Alternate Name: 底拿
  
• Alternate Name: Dinah bint Jacob
  
• Alternate Name: Dinah bat Jacob of Paddan-Aram
  
• Alternate Name: דינה
  
• Alternate Name: Dinah de Jacó e Lia
  
• Gender: F
  
• Burial: in Simeon buried her in the land of Canaan, Egypt at LATI: N7 LONG: E0
  
• FSID: L7JX-SXT
  
• Birth: 1746 BC in Syria at LATI: N4.52 LONG: E7.57
  
• Death: in Rameses, Goshen, Egypt
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2000/puzzle_ans.html
  
  Jacob's Seventieth Descendant
  by John P. Pratt
  
  reprinted from Meridian Magazine (Aug. 18, 2000).
  ©2000 by John P. Pratt. All rights Reserved.
  
  Index, Home
  
  Contents
  1. Ancient Solutions
  2. The Solution
  3. The Hebrew Tradition
  4. The Christian Tradition
  5. Conclusion
  Notes
  Applying strict logic to an account in Genesis leads to discovering a startling hidden treasure in the scriptures. Our science editor gives the answer to the scriptural puzzle presented last month.
  
  In last month's article, "Hidden Treasures in the Scriptures" we looked at what appears to be a first class logic puzzle in the Book of Genesis (Gen. 46:5-27). At first the problem looks like a simple mistake: the record implies that Jacob had seventy descendants when he arrived in Egypt, and yet only sixty-nine appear to be listed. Now let's look at the solution, which indeed has been a hidden treasure in the scriptures. The answer is important because it is strong evidence from the Bible of a Jewish tradition that has been thought by scholars to be merely a fanciful fabrication. Not only does it add to our knowledge of Biblical history, but the solution likely affects your genealogy because Jacob's seventieth descendant is likely to be your own ancestor!
  
  The problem, which is given in full in last month's article, arises from the following two apparent inconsistencies in the Biblical record. Jacob had four wives, and the number of descendants of each is given along with a list of their names. The first problem is that it claims Leah had 33 living descendants, but only 32 names are listed with her. Secondly, it makes a big point that 66 descendants made the trip to Egypt with Jacob, and that Joseph and his two sons were already there, for a total of seventy. Both statements seem to be missing somebody, so the question arises whether it is possible to reconcile all the statements.
  
  Most modern scholars assume that Moses wrote the Book of Genesis himself, or that it was written down centuries after Moses from oral traditions. Thus, they tend to overlook human "errors" and usually don't even mention this problem at all. On the other hand, ancient Jewish commentators studied every word of Genesis because they understood that the entire book was given as a revelation from God to Moses. Therefore, any apparent inconsistency demanded a real explanation. Although it does not appear that they deduced the correct solution, it is instructive to review the solutions which they offered.[1]
  
  1. Ancient Solutions
  One solution given by Jewish commentators near the time of Christ was that Jacob is to be counted with the 69 to bring the total to 70. This is also the usual solution given by modern Bible commentators, if they mention the problem at all. That solution will not work, however, because the numbers of descendants given for each of the four wives do indeed add up to seventy (Leah 33, Zilpah 16, Rachel 14, Bilhah 7), so clearly it was not the author's intent to include Jacob himself in the count. Other solutions were that another son of Dan, or that Asher's daughter Serah, or even that the Holy One of Israel would complete the count.
  The best ancient solution was probably deduced as follows. First, Leah had 33 descendants but only 32 are listed as making the trip, so the missing descendant must be from Leah. Second, 66 made the trip, 3 were already in Egypt, and yet the total in Egypt when Jacob arrived in Egypt was 70. Therefore, one might have been born just as they crossed the border into Egypt. The proposed person was Jochebed, the mother of Moses, who was Levi's daughter and Leah's granddaughter (Exo. 2:1, 6:16-20). That answer should technically be disqualified on at least two counts. First, the puzzle states that Jacob took with him all of his sons' daughters, so that should include her, even if carried in the womb. Secondly, the Bible specifically states that Jochebed was born to Levi after he arrived in Egypt (Num. 26:59). That did not stop the commentator from inventing this detailed description of her birth, which is clearly a taylor-made solution to our problem:
  
  Such was the manner of Jacob's arrival in Egypt. He came with his whole family, sixty-nine persons they were in all, but the number was raised to seventy by the birth of Jochebed, afterward the mother of Moses, which took place when the cavalcade had advanced to the space between the one and the other city wall.[2]
  Why should Jochedbed, rather than any other unnamed infant, be chosen for this very clever solution to the problem? She was a particularly good candidate because she was said to be very old at the time of Moses birth. There is a tradition of uncertain origin that she was 130 years old at his birth.[3] That's forty years older than Sarah at the birth of Isaac! In any case, if she were 130, and if Moses was 80 when he delivered Israel from bondage (Exo. 7:7) then the total stay in Egypt would have been 210 years (if she had been born as they entered). That is close to the traditional 215 years for the stay in Egypt.[4] When the apocryphal Book of Jasher was compiled from Jewish traditions, this commentary had become so well accepted that Jasher explicitly states that Jochebed "was born unto them in their going down to Egypt" (Jasher 59:9), a rare example of actually changing the Biblical record that she was born after they arrived in Egypt. Moreover, the length of the sojourn in Egypt according to that book was cut from 215 years down to 210 years (Jasher 81:3, compare Ex. 12:40), apparently just to fit this very solution to this puzzle.
  
  2. The Solution
  Now let us turn to what I propose is the real solution, which does not require any additional information or Biblical background to see, but which can be deduced only from the information given in the "puzzle" itself. In other words, it could be deduced if all the names were changed to fictitious names, so that the puzzle could be solved independent of the rest of Biblical history.
  1. We are told 66 descendants made the trip to Egypt, that Joseph and his two sons were already in Egypt, but that the total number in the House of Jacob on arrival was 70. The first possibility is that Jacob is the 70th person.
  
  2. Jacob cannot be the 70th person because the totals for each of the four wives adds up to 70, so Jacob is not included in the count.
  
  3. The person must be Leah's descendant because she had 33 and only 32 are listed with her name.
  
  4. Because only 66 made the trip, the 70th person must have been in Egypt already (or perhaps born at the moment they crossed the Egyptian border!?).
  
  5. Except for Joseph and his two sons, Jacob brought with him all his sons and his sons' sons and his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and also all of his great-grandchildren. At first, this wording might sound like a verbose way to state that Jacob brought all of his descendants with him except for Joseph and his two sons. But closer inspection shows that the list fails to include his daughters' children. Jacob only had one daughter, so the missing descendant must have been his daughter Dinah's child. There are many such examples in the scriptures where it looks like the Lord is going on with needless detail, when actually great truths are hidden in what is not said. Every word which proceeds forth from his mouth is carefully chosen.
  
  6. Now for the surprise. The Bible states, "These are the names of the children of Israel," (Gen. 46:8), and there are indeed 70 names which follow. The seventieth name, which appears to be extra, is that of Asenath, the wife of Joseph. Her name is given in the verse about those who were already in Egypt, so that brings the total names to four of those who didn't make the trip.
  
  7. But wait. Weren't we explicitly told that none of the wives of the twelve sons of Jacob were included in the count? So isn't Joseph's wife Asenath disqualified because of that? It is this point which convinced me that these verses qualify as a truly classic logic puzzle. The best puzzles have misleading clues, designed to make the puzzle difficult, such as we saw in point 5 above in the way the list of those making the trip was worded. A careful reading shows that the puzzle stated that none of the wives is included in the count of the 66 who made the trip (Gen. 46:26). So all of the wives but one are disallowed! The wording expressly allows Asenath to be the seventieth descendant. Such misleading and yet technically correct statements are the bread and butter of logic puzzles.
  
  8. Thus, the solution to the puzzle is that Joseph's wife Asenath is the seventieth descendant of Jacob, being the daughter of Dinah.
  
  Now let's look at Hebrew and Christian traditions which support this conclusion.
  
  See Dinah's daughter Asenath for the 2nd half of the above article.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinah
  
  Biografia
  Dinah was the only daughter of Jacob and Leah, and the Rabbis present her as possessing many positive qualities, as was fitting for the daughter of the progenitors of the Israelite nation. The rabbis
  
  === https://fabpedigree.com/s071/f732103.htm ===
  https://fabpedigree.com/s071/f732103.htm
  
  === !GENESIS 30:21 ===
  !GENESIS 30:21
  
  === !Dinah (Heb. "judged"). ===
  !Dinah (Heb. "judged").
  
  === She was raped/seduced by Prince Shechem ===
  She was raped/seduced by Prince Shechem (#24135), son of King Hamor theHivite. Although Shechem wanted to marry Dinah, and offered to pay themarriage dowry, Dinah's brothers, Simeon and Levi, were determined toavenge the dishonor. After tricking Shechem and all his men intoconsenting to circumcision, Simeon and Levi then massacred theconvalescing Canaanites. (Everyone in the Bible, by William P. Barker,1966)
  
  === !Ref Mat: KJV-Holy Bible, Gen 30:21; ===
  !Ref Mat: KJV-Holy Bible, Gen 30:21;
  
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1. Aridah bat Job, b. in Salem, Jerulsalem, Canaan    

1. Asenath bat Dinah, b. 1725 BC in On, Heliopolis, Egypt, Genesis 41:45     d. in Memphis, Goshen, Egypt

1. Title: Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology; Old Testament dates calculated from date Solomon Temple construction commences. 4th year of Solomons 40 year reign from 972 to 931 BC
   Author: Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology by Andrew Steinmann ISBN: 9780758627995 https://www.cph.org/p-18805-from-abraham-to-paul-a-biblical-chronology.aspx
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Steinmann;
   Note: Author Andrew Steinmann establishes two very strong chronological anchor points in the Old Testament era, from which most of the other Old Testament Chronological dates can be pinned down. One: The date the Solomon temple construction commenced was on: 2 Iyyar 2793 or 26 April 967BC from this he adds the 480 years that 1 Kings 6:1 / 8:2 states said construction was from Israel's exodus from Egypt. Brings us to... Two: 14 Nisan 2314 / 22 March 1446 BC
   Page: mentioned on pages 76-77
   
2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Dinah - Published information: female
   Note: Published information: female Published information: female
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2033001108
   
3. Title: União com Sikhem Ben Hamor de CANAAN Dinah fut violée par ce prince