The sound of rape enters the scriptures. Previously men just took women. But here there is something wrong in that taking. A distinction is made. Is it merely that the brothers think that they have been dishonoured?
What about Dinah? Her name is sounded through the text. Yet she herself is silent in the text.
The chapter is filled with the sound of grasping. The sound of Jacob the grasper fills this text. Jacob’s response is at first silence (vs5) and then wispy complaint (vs30).
The sound of God his wholly absent from this chapter.