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Genesis 49:4-6
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

4 Unstable as water, you shall not have pre-eminence
    because you went up to your father’s bed;
    then you defiled it—you[a] went up to my couch!

5 Simeon and Levi are brothers;
    weapons of violence are their swords.
6 O my soul, come not into their council;
    O my spirit,[b] be not joined to their company;
for in their anger they slay men,
    and in their wantonness they hamstring oxen.

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  1. Genesis 49:4 Gk Syr Tg: Heb he
  2. Genesis 49:6 Or glory
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Genesis 49:4-6
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4 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)

5 “Simeon(C) and Levi(D) are brothers—
    their swords[a] are weapons of violence.(E)
6 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.
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