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But your passion was like a flood you couldn’t control.
    So you will not remain my most honored son.
You climbed into your father’s bed
    and slept with one of his wives.
You brought shame to my bed,
    to the bed you lay on.

Simeon and Levi

“Simeon and Levi are brothers.
    They are violent with their swords.
I will not join their secret meetings.
    I will not take part in their evil plans.
They have killed people out of anger
    and crippled animals for fun.

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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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Footnotes

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