5Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity, waging war.
5Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity, waging war.
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, O ye sons of Jacob, hearken to Israel your father:
3 Ruben, my firstborn, thou art my strength, and the beginning of my sorrow: excelling in gifts, greater in command.
4 Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not: because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and didst defile his couch.
5 Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity, waging war.
6 Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their assembly: |be- cause in their fury they slew a man, and in their selfwill they undermined a wall.
7 Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath because it was cruel: I Will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.
49:5Simeon and Levi [are] brethren; instruments of cruelty [are in] their habitations.
49:5"Simeon and Levi are brothers- their swords are weapons of violence.
49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords.
49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren: Instruments of violence their swords.
49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords.
49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren: instruments of cruelty are in, their habitations.
49:5|Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.
49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren! Instruments of violence — their espousals!
49:5Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.