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[a]Uncontrolled as water, you shall not have preeminence,
(A)Because you went up to your father’s bed;
Then you defiled it—he went up to my couch.

(B)Simeon and Levi are brothers;
Their swords are implements of violence.
(C)Let my soul not enter into their council;
Let not my glory be united with their assembly;
Because in their anger they killed [b]men,
And in their self-will they hamstrung [c]oxen.

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  1. Genesis 49:4 Or Boiling over; lit Recklessness
  2. Genesis 49:6 Lit a man
  3. Genesis 49:6 Lit an ox

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.