Genesis 49:5-7

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⁵Simeon and Levi are brothers [equally headstrong, deceitful, vindictive, and cruel]; their swords are weapons of violence.^(A)

⁶O my soul, come not into their secret council; unto their assembly let not my honor be united [for I knew nothing of their plot], because in their anger they slew men [an honored man, Shechem, and the Shechemites], and in their self-will they disabled oxen.

⁷Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and ^[a]scatter them in Israel.

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Footnotes

Genesis 49:7 This was literally fulfilled. Levi got no inheritance except 48 towns scattered throughout different parts of Canaan. As to Simeon, they were originally given only a few towns and villages in Judah’s lot (Josh. 19:1). Afterward, needing more room, they formed colonies in districts which they conquered from the Idumeans and the Amalekites I Chron. 4:39, 40. (Adam Clarke, The Holy Bible with A Commentary).