Genesis 49:4-6

The Voice

⁴    But you are out of control, like floodwaters; you have forfeited your place
        because you have lain with your father’s wife
        and defiled his bed—you climbed onto my couch!

⁵    Simeon and Levi are indeed brothers, kindred spirits
        who use their swords^[a] for cruelty and violence.
⁶    May I never enter their confidence;
        from the two of them I must part company to retain my honor.
    Because in their anger, they’ve killed men,
        and they’ve hamstrung oxen on a whim.