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Boiling over as water, [a]thou shalt not have the pre-eminence;
Because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed;
Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
    Simeon and Levi are brethren;
Weapons of violence are their [b]swords.
O my soul, come not thou into their [c]council;
Unto their assembly, my glory, be not thou united;
For in their anger they slew [d]a man,
And in their self-will they hocked [e]an ox.

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  1. Genesis 49:4 Or, have not thou
  2. Genesis 49:5 Or, compacts
  3. Genesis 49:6 Or, secret
  4. Genesis 49:6 Or, men
  5. Genesis 49:6 Or, oxen

Turbulent as the waters,(A) you will no longer excel,
    for you went up onto your father’s bed,
    onto my couch and defiled it.(B)

“Simeon(C) and Levi(D) are brothers—
    their swords[a] are weapons of violence.(E)
Let me not enter their council,
    let me not join their assembly,(F)
for they have killed men in their anger(G)
    and hamstrung(H) oxen as they pleased.

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  1. Genesis 49:5 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.