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Genesis 49:4-6
Good News Translation

4 You are like a raging flood,
But you will not be the most important,
For you slept with my concubine
And dishonored your father's bed.

5 “Simeon and Levi are brothers.
They use their weapons to commit violence.
6 I will not join in their secret talks,
Nor will I take part in their meetings,
For they killed people in anger
And they crippled bulls for sport.

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Genesis 49:4-6
New International Version

4 Turbulent as the waters,(A) you will no longer excel,
    for you went up onto your father’s bed,
    onto my couch and defiled it.(B)

5 “Simeon(C) and Levi(D) are brothers—
    their swords[a] are weapons of violence.(E)
6 Let me not enter their council,
    let me not join their assembly,(F)
for they have killed men in their anger(G)
    and hamstrung(H) oxen as they pleased.

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  1. Genesis 49:5 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
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