³ “Reuben, you’re my firstborn,
    my strength,
        and the first fruit of my vitality.
You excel in rank
    and excel in power.
⁴ But you’re as undisciplined as a roaring river,
    so eventually you won’t succeed,
because you got in your father’s bed,^[a]
    defiled it, and then approached my couch.”

⁵ “Simeon and Levi are brothers;
    their swords are violent weapons.