Jacob castigates Simeon and Levi for this as their actions have placed the family in danger of a retaliatory strike by their neighbors. Later, in his final blessing, he condemns Simeon's descendants to become "divided and scattered". Some Biblical scholars regard the account of the rape of Dinah as an aetiological myth, created by the Jahwist, to justify the presence of a sanctuary at Shechem; in comparison to the Elohist's justification of the Shechem sanctuary, where the land is simply purchased by Jacob, and dedicated to "El Elohe Israel" (meaning "El is the God of Israel", "mighty is the God of Israel", or "God, the God of Israel"). The Jahwist's account is viewed as a veiled slight against the sanctuary.