Unstable as water, you shall not excel,
Because you (A)went up to your father’s bed;
Then you defiled it
He went up to my couch.

“Simeon and Levi are brothers;
Instruments of [a]cruelty are in their dwelling place.
(B)Let not my soul enter their council;
Let not my honor be united (C)to their assembly;
(D)For in their anger they slew a man,
And in their self-will they [b]hamstrung an ox.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:5 violence
  2. Genesis 49:6 lamed

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