Genesis 49:4-6

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⁴Unstable as water, you shall not have pre-eminence
because you went up to your father’s bed;
then you defiled it—you^[a] went up to my couch!

⁵Simeon and Levi are brothers;
    weapons of violence are their swords.
⁶O my soul, come not into their council;
    O my spirit,^[b] be not joined to their company;
for in their anger they slay men,
    and in their wantonness they hamstring oxen.

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Genesis 49:4 Gk Syr Tg: Heb he
Genesis 49:6 Or glory

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