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But you are uncontrolled like water.
    So you will no longer lead your brothers.
This is because you got into your father’s bed.
    You shamed me by having physical relations with my slave girl.

“Simeon and Levi are brothers.
    They used their swords to do violence.
I will not join their secret talks.
    I will not meet with them to plan evil.
They killed men because they were angry.
    And they crippled oxen just 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.