British-israel.us -- Dinah Raped At Fourteen -- Simeon and Levi Murder At Eighteen or Nineteen

Genesis chapter 34 Star Chart: Clockwise from when "Shechem (Argo) the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her" (Dinah -- Castor), and "he (Pollux) took her (Castor), and lay with her, and (lunar pink behind) (red radius) defiled her" (34:2) till "every male was (lunar pink foreskin) circumcised, all that went out of the (solar golden) gate of his city" (34:24) is 288° or 19.2 hours. From that point till "it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the (Gemini) sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his (red radius) (Perseus) (lunar crescent) sword, and came upon the (solar golden-gated) city boldly, and slew all the (Gemini) males" (34:25) and "They took their (Aries) sheep, and their (Taurus) oxen, and their (Aries) asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, And all their (solar gold coin) wealth, and all their little (Gemini) ones, and their (Gemini) wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the (red radius) house" (34:28-29) is 72° hours in 1672 B.C.

Dinah appears in this chapter as a young woman; yet from the mention of her birth in Genesis 30:21 (cf. Genesis 31:41), we know she was still only seven years old at the time when Jacob left Haran. Since Jacob's first seven years with Laban had been prior to his two marriages, all of his eleven sons and one daughter must have been born during a seven-year period ending in 1700 B.C. when he asked Laban to give him leave. Adding six additional years of work for Laban, this would make her about 7 years old when she was raped, and her two brothers about 11 and 12 years old when they massacred a city. Such a scenario is unbelievable.

Let's establish the real chronology. Here is the birth order of Jacob's children: 1707 -- Reuben, 1706 -- Simeon, 1705 -- Levi, 1704 -- Judah, 1703 -- Issachar, 1702 -- Zebulun, 1701 -- Dinah, 1700 -- Joseph. Then 1701 B.C. + 7 years = 1694 B.C. when Dinah left Haran at age seven. The Jewish scholars of a later period fix the marriageable age of a female at twelve years and a day. If we suppose Dinah to have been born in the same year with Joseph, who was in his seventeenth year at the time of his being sold as a bondslave (Genesis 37:2), the events of this chapter must have occurred in the interval -- before she was seventeen. It is probable that Dinah was in her fourteenth year (7 + 7 = 14) when she went out to visit the daughters of the land. SEVEN YEARS must have been spent by Jacob in the neighborhood of Shekem, where he had purchased a piece of ground. We derive 7° YEARS from Genesis 33:18-20 which says Jacob "erected there an altar" because the constellation Ara (altar) is SEVEN DEGREES after the sun in Ophiuchus (1679 B.C.) bringing us to 1672 B.C. Another indication of this SEVEN YEARS is that "he (Ophiuchus) passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground SEVEN TIMES, until he came near to his (Sagittarius) brother" (33:3). That means SEVEN ROTATIONS of Ophiuchus and therefore SEVEN YEARS.

As a review, Abraham was 75 when he entered Canaan (Gen. 12:4) in 1876 B.C. -- 430 years before Israel's exodus from Egypt in 1446 B.C. (Ex. 12:40-41). He received the covenant at this time, making it year zero in the calculation. Isaac was born 25 years later when Abraham was 100 (Gen. 21:5) in 1851 B.C. Isaac was age 60 when Jacob was born (Gen. 25:26) in 1791 B.C. When Jacob was 130, he entered Egypt (Gen. 47:28) in the second year of the famine (45:6) when Joseph was 39 in 1661 B.C. Therefore "Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh" (41:46) in 1670 B.C. at the beginning of the seven years of plenty. "Two full years" before that, the butler-baker incident occurred in 1672 B.C. (41:1). Joseph was "seventeen years old" (37:2) in 1683 B.C. when he was sold into Egypt. Furthermore, Joseph was born in 1700 B.C. when God "opened her (Rachel's) womb" (29:22) and Jacob was age 91. This means that fourteen years before that (29:27-30), Jacob travelled to Padan-Aram in 1714 B.C. when he was 77 (28:1-2). Adding "twenty years" with Laban (31:41) + 7 years when Jacob "erected there an altar" in Shekem (33:18-20) + about one year till "Isaac ... died" (35:27) makes Jacob 105 years old in 1686 when Isaac died at 165 (105 + 60 = 165). In order for Isaac to be 180 when he died (35:28), we must find a gap of 15 years in the chronology somewhere between 31:41 and 35:28. Adding together 25 + 60 + 130 = 215 years sojourning outside Egypt. With the other 215 years inside Egypt, we can construct the 430-year period till 1446 B.C. (see also Josephus' Antiquities 2:15:2). The Exodus in 1446 B.C. was 430 years after Abraham entered Canaan in 1876 B.C. "Now the sojourning (in Canaan and Egypt -- 215 years each) of the children of Israel (which here includes Abraham, Isaac and Jacob -- see footnotes in both the Companion Bible and Jerusalem Bible), who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt" (Ex.12:40-41). Josephus says the same thing: "They left Egypt ... on the fifteenth day of the lunar month (Num. 33:3), four hundred and thirty years after our forefather Abraham came into Canaan" (Ant.2:15:2). Both the Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint add "and in Canaan" in verse 40. The Septuagint, quoted by Paul in Galatians, says "the sojourning of the sons of Israel who dwelt in the land of Egypt and Canaan was 430 years" because they dwelt in Canaan before they dwelt in Egypt.