Genesis 49:5

Simeon and Levi, you have both acted like criminals. You use your swords to act violently.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

In Context

4But you were as uncontrollable as a flood [SIM]. So now you will not be my most important son, because you climbed up onto my bed, and had sex with [MTY] my ◄concubine/slave who had become one of my wives►. Your doing that caused me, your father, to have great shame.

6I do not want to be with you when you make evil plans [DOU]. I do not want to join you in your meetings, because you killed people when you became very angry, and you ◄hamstrung/cut the tendons in the legs of► oxen just to ◄have fun/see them suffer►.

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Cross References

Genesis 29:33Later she became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said, “Because Yahweh has heard that my husband doesn’t love me, he has given me this son, too.” So she named him Simeon, which means ‘someone who hears’.

Proverbs 18:9People who are lazy while they work are just as bad as [IDM] those who destroy things.

Revelation 7:712,000 from the tribe of Simeon, 12,000 from the tribe of Levi, 12.000 from the tribe of Issachar,

Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:2-5

Jacob's Prophecy Concerning His Sons. ( b. c. 1689.) 1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befal you in the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. 3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then… Read the whole commentary →

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