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Boiling over like water, you shall not excel,
because you went up to your father’s bed,
and you defiled it.
He went up to my couch!

Simeon and Levi are brothers.
Their daggers[a] are weapons of violence.

My soul, do not enter their council.
My glory, do not join in their assembly.
Yes, in their anger they killed men.
In their spitefulness they hamstrung oxen.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:5 The meaning of the word is uncertain. The suggestions are many.