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Genesis 49:5

LeviSimeon
Anger

3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.

4 Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.

Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.

6 May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.

7 Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

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BSB
Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.
KJV
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
WEB
“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.
ASV
Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords.
DARBY
Simeon and Levi are brethren: Instruments of violence their swords.
BLB
Simeon and Levi [are] brothers; instruments of violence [are] their swords.
ÅB
Simeon og Levi er brødre, voldsvåpen er deres sverd.
OTB
«Simeon og Levi er brødre; deres sverd er voldens redskaper.
B1930
Simeon og Levi er brødre, voldsvåben er deres sverd.

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Cross references

  • Genesis 34:25–31

    Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.

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  • Genesis 29:33–34

    Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has given me this son as well.” So she named him Simeon.

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  • Genesis 46:10–11

    The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

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  • Proverbs 18:9

    Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.

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