Genesis 34 - 36

Jacob settled with his family and livestock around Shechem, a city named for the king of the land's son. This young man sets his eyes on the new girl in the neighborhood, Jacob's only daughter, Dinah. One day when she was visiting the women of the city, Shechem raped her, and then became enamored with Dinah. So begins a very sordid tale in the lives of Israel and his family. The Bible doesn't gloss over these things. We can all learn something of Israel's, and our own, character from the stories God chose to include in His letter to us.
Shechem asks his father to get Dinah as a wife for him after he raped her. Jacob heard of the rape, but did nothing about it himself. Dinah's brothers were furious when they heard. King Hamor presented marriage with his son as a kind of peace treaty. Jacob's sons devise a plan to get even with the king's son for his bad deed. They told him he and all the men of the land needed to be circumcised before they could intermarry.
Can you just imagine the reaction of the men of the city when they were told they would all have to be circumcised, young and old? Hamor also appeals to their greed when he tells them all of Jacob's livestock and property will become community property. While they were all still sore and weakened from the circumcision, two of Dinah's brothers, Levi and Simeon, took their swords and killed every male in the city, retrieving their sister as the other brothers plundered the village, seizing livestock and women.
If they were expecting praise from their father, they were sorely mistaken. Jacob chewed them all out, fearing only for his own property and safety, and not his daughter's or his family's honor.
God used this episode to move Jacob back to Bethel, where He had first appeared to Jacob. Jacob then gives his family a lesson in pure worship of God, telling them to rid themselves of all their idols in preparation for building an altar. God visited Jacob again at that altar, reminding him that He had changed his name to Israel, and reminding him of the promise of the land and many descendants.
Israel's dearest wife, Rachel, dies while giving birth to Benjamin as they were moving on from Bethel and was buried at Bethlehem. Rachel's tomb is still a landmark in Israel, so history supports the Biblical account of Jacob and his family. At the end of Chapter 35, we see Israel returning home in time to see his aged father, Isaac, who apparently died soon after Israel's return home. Again we see Jacob and Esau reunited as they bury their father, and presumably, their life-long family feud.
Chapter 36 tells us that Jacob and Esau again went their separate ways, however, because their families, flocks, and herds were too large for the land to support all of them if they stayed together. Esau's family moved away to the hill country of Seir, which is southeast of the Dead Sea. There ensues an account of Esau's descendants. It is good to peruse this listing, because it tells us that many of Israel's strongest enemies down through the years descended from Esau. We see the name Amalek, from whom we get the Amalekites, and Hadad, whose descendant, Ben Hadad, would cause Israel much grief.