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


In Context

2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.

3 |Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

4 Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

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

6 My soul, don't come into their council. My glory, don't be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

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 Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

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.