Genesis 49:3-7

English Standard Version

³ “Reuben, you are ^(A)my firstborn,
    my might, and the ^(B)firstfruits of my strength,
    preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.
⁴ Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence,
    because you ^(C)went up to your father's bed;
    then you defiled it—he went up to my couch!

^5 (D)“Simeon and Levi are brothers;
    weapons ^(E)of violence are their swords.
⁶ Let my soul come not into their council;
    ^(F)O my glory, ^(G)be not joined to their company.
For in their anger they killed men,
    and in their willfulness they ^(H)hamstrung oxen.
⁷ Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce,
    and their wrath, for it is cruel!
I will ^(I)divide them in Jacob
    and scatter them in Israel.