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“Reuben, you are (A)my firstborn,
    my might, and the (B)firstfruits of my strength,
    pre-eminent in dignity and pre-eminent in power.
Unstable as water, you shall not have pre-eminence,
    because you (C)went up to your father's bed;
    then you defiled it—he went up to my couch!
(D)“Simeon and Levi are brothers;
    weapons (E)of violence are their swords.

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