Genesis 49:6

I won't go with you when you talk together secretly. I won't go to your meetings, because you killed men when you were angry, and you crippled some bullocks for fun.

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In The King James Version

O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

In Context

5Then Jacob spoke to his sons Simeon and Levi and said, “Simeon and Levi, you have the same mother. But you both have swords to fight hard.

7Trouble will happen for you, because you still want to fight and you are still angry. You are both cruel men. So I will spread out your people among all the Israelite people.”

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Cross References

Genesis 34:30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me. Now the Canaanite people will hate me. The Perizzites and everybody in this country will hate me. I have only a few men. If they all get together to fight against me, they will destroy us.”

Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:6-8

5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. These were next in age to Reuben, and they also had been a grief and shame to Jacob, when they treacherously and… Read the whole commentary →

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