Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Genesis 49:5
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Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.
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¶ Simeon and Levi [are] brethren; instruments of cruelty [are in] their habitations.
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“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.
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Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords.
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Genesis 49
3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.
4 Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
5 Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.
6 May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.
7 Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
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