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Unstable[a] as water, you shall not excel any longer,
    for you went up upon the bed of your father,
    then defiled it. You went up upon my couch!
Simeon and Levi are brothers;
    weapons of violence are their swords.
    Let me[b] not come into their council.
Let not my person[c] be joined to their company.
    For in their anger they killed men,
    and at their pleasure they hamstrung cattle.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:4 Or “reckless”
  2. Genesis 49:5 Or “my soul”
  3. Genesis 49:6 Or “my glory”