5"Simeon and Levi are brothers- their swords are weapons of violence.


In Context

2 "Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.

3 "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, the first sign of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.

4 Turbulent as the waters, you will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father's bed, onto my couch and defiled it.

5 "Simeon and Levi are brothers- their swords are weapons of violence.

6 Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased.

7 Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel.

Genesis 49:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

49:5Simeon and Levi [are] brethren; instruments of cruelty [are in] their habitations.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

49:5Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity, waging war.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren: Instruments of violence their swords.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren: instruments of cruelty are in, their habitations.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

49:5|Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren! Instruments of violence — their espousals!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

49:5Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.