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1 And Jacob calls to his sons and says, “Be gathered together, and I declare to you that which happens with you in the latter end of the days. 2 Be assembled, and hear, sons of Jacob, || And listen to your father Israel. 3 Reuben! You [are] my firstborn, || My power, and beginning of my strength, || The abundance of exaltation, || And the abundance of strength; 4 Unstable as water, you are not abundant; For you have gone up your father’s bed; Then you have defiled [it]: He went up my couch! 5 Simeon and Levi [are] brothers! Instruments of violence—their espousals! 6 Into their secret, do not come, O my soul! Do not be united to their assembly, O my glory; For in their anger they slew a man, || And in their self-will eradicated a prince. 7 Cursed [is] their anger, for [it is] fierce, || And their wrath, for [it is] sharp; I divide them in Jacob, || And I scatter them in Israel. Genesis 49:1-7, Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press.
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