Bible verse

Genesis 49:5

Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.

Genesis 49:5 · BSB

Genesis 49:5 in context

The verses around it, from Genesis 49.

1 Then Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to you in the days to come:

2 Come together and listen, O sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.

3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.

4 Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.

5 Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.

6 May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.

7 Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

8 Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.

9 Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?

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Genesis 49:5 in other translations

KJV

Simeon and Levi [are] brethren; instruments of cruelty [are in] their habitations.

ASV

Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords.

ERV

Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords.

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