Genesis 49:5
Genesis chapter 49 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords.
Context
v.4Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
v.5This passage
v.6O my soul, come not thou into their council; Unto their assembly, my glory, be not thou united; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will they hocked an ox.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Proverbs 18:9
He also that is slack in his work Is brother to him that is a destroyer.
- Genesis 29:33
And she conceived again, and bare a son: and said, Because Jehovah hath heard that I am hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.
- Genesis 34:25
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and slew all the males.
- Genesis 46:10
And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.