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What Age was Dina?

Shalom u bracha! This is not halacha question, but i still decided to ask. It’s written in the commentaries in parshat Beshalach, that Levy has been 13 y.o when he and his brother Shimon killed Shechem & all citizens. Dina has been younger than Levy, probably she has been a young girl at this time (May be 9 y.o). In “Meam Loez” is written, that Dina gave a birth to Asinath after being raped by Shechem. Question is: How is it possible, that a young girl until puberty gave a birth to Asinath? If it’s truth that Asinath has been a Shechem’s daughter, how it’s possible, that Josef marry a woman, (a fruit of rape from Canaanite man)? Where can i find the answer? Thanks a lot.

Answer:

It is possible that these two Midrashic ideas conflict with one another. We often find conflicting Midrashim, and not everything found in the Midrash need be taken as historical fact — it can often mean to convey an idea rather than a historical fact.

Another possibility is that the girls of yore could give birth at a younger age, which we find in Tosafot (Sanhedrin 89) concerning boys (Tosafot writes that in former years boys used to reach puberty at the age of eight).

Best wishes.

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