Genesis 49:7
Good News Translation
A curse be on their anger, because it is so fierce, And on their fury, because it is so cruel. I will scatter them throughout the land of Israel. I will disperse them among its people.

New Revised Standard Version
Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

Contemporary English Version
Now I place a curse on you because of your fierce anger. Your descendants will be scattered among the tribes of Israel.

New American Bible
Cursed be their fury so fierce, and their rage so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob, disperse them throughout Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath, because it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.

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Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath, because it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.

Cursed.

2 Samuel 13:15,22-28 Then Ammon hated her with an exceeding great hatred: so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her before. And Ammon said to her: Arise, and get thee gone. . . .

Proverbs 26:24,25 An enemy is known by his lips, when in his heart he entertaineth deceit. . . .

Proverbs 27:3 A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both.

I will divide.

Joshua 19:1-9 And the second lot came forth for the children of Simeon by their kindreds: and their inheritance was . . .

Joshua 21:1-34 Then the princes of the families of Levi came to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the princes of the kindreds of all the tribes of the children of Israel . . .

1 Chronicles 4:24-31,39,40 The sons of Simeon: Namuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zara, Saul: . . .

1 Chronicles 6:65 And they gave them by lot, out of the tribe of the sons of Juda, and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, these cities which they called by their names.

Context
Jacob Blesses His Sons
6Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their assembly: because in their fury they slew a man, and in their self-will they undermined a wall. 7Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath, because it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.8Juda, thee shall thy brethren praise: thy hand shall be on the necks of thy enemies; the sons of thy father shall bow down to thee.…
Cross References
Joshua 19:1
And the second lot came forth for the children of Simeon by their kindreds: and their inheritance was

Joshua 19:9
In the possession and lot of the children of Juda: because it was too great, and therefore the children of Simeon had their possession in the midst of their inheritance.

Joshua 21:1
Then the princes of the families of Levi came to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the princes of the kindreds of all the tribes of the children of Israel

Genesis 49:6
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