Genesis 49:4-6

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⁴Unstable as water, you shall no longer excel
because you went up onto your father’s bed;
then you defiled it—you^[a] went up onto my couch!

⁵Simeon and Levi are brothers;
    weapons of violence are their swords.
⁶May I never come into their council;
    may I not be joined to their company—
for in their anger they killed men,
    and at their whim they hamstrung oxen.

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Genesis 49:4 Gk Syr Tg: Heb he

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