‘And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.'
Note the stress on her pedigree. She was the chief's daughter by his primary wife. It was not really wise for her to slip away from the camp alone to mingle with the women of Shechem, but she was young and thoughtless. The story indicates that she was now of marriageable age (twelve or thirteen) so Jacob clearly spent some years at Succoth. She was curious to meet these sophisticated town women, unaware that the morals of the tribe were very different from the morals of cities.