“Simeon(A) and Levi(B) are brothers—
    their swords[a] are weapons of violence.(C)

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Footnotes

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

Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

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Let me not enter their council,
    let me not join their assembly,(A)
for they have killed men in their anger(B)
    and hamstrung(C) oxen as they pleased.

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O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

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