“He arose during that night and he took his two wives, and his two maidservants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Yabok” (Genesis 32:23). “He arose during that night and he took his two wives, and his two maidservants…” – but where was Dina? He placed her in a chest and locked it with her in it. He said: ‘This wicked one has a covetous eye; [I do this] so he will not direct his eyes, see her, and take her from me.’
Rav Huna said in the name of Rabbi Abba HaKohen Bardela: The Holy One blessed be He said to him: ‘“For the sake of one who deprives his neighbor of kindness” (Job 6:14) – you withheld kindness from your neighbor, you withheld kindness from your brother.30Jacob should have allowed his brother to marry Dina. Had she married the man, she would not have engaged in licentiousness. You did not seek to marry her to a circumcised man, so she married an uncircumcised man.
You did not seek to marry her in a permitted fashion, so she married in a prohibited fashion.’ That is what is written: “Dina daughter of Leah…went out” (Genesis 34:1). “He took them, and crossed them over the stream, and brought over that which he had” (Genesis 32:24). “He took them, and crossed them over the stream” – Rav Huna in the name of Rabbi Idi: He made himself like a bridge, taking from here and placing it here.