Genesis 49:3-5
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Reuben
3 Jacob said, ‘Reuben you are my firstborn son. You were born first, when I was a strong young man. Of all my sons, you are the most famous and the strongest.
4 Yet you are as wild as the sea. You had sex with your father's slave wife. This bad thing brought me shame. So you will not become great.[a]
Simeon and Levi
5 Simeon and Levi are brothers. They use their swords as weapons to destroy people.[b]
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- 49:4 See Genesis 35:22.
- 49:5 See Genesis 34:26.
Genesis 49:3-5
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Footnotes
- Genesis 49:5 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
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