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Genesis 49:5
Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords.
Genesis 49:5 · American Standard Version
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Genesis 49:5 in other translations
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.
“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.
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In context
2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; And hearken unto Israel your father.
3 Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.
4 Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords.
6 O my soul, come not thou into their council; Unto their assembly, my glory, be not thou united; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will they hocked an ox.
7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel.
8 Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise: Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; Thy father’s sons shall bow down before thee.
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