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


In Context

2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob: and hearken to Israel your father.

3 Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellence of dignity, and the excellence of power:

4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it; he went up to my couch.

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

6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; to their assembly, my honor, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will 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.

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

49:5"Simeon and Levi are brothers- their swords are weapons of violence.

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 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.