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1 THEN Jacob called his sons and said to them, Gather yourselves together that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together and listen, O sons of Jacob; and hearken o Israel your father. 3 Reuben, you are my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, and the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 You went astray like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed; truly, you have defiled my bed by going up into it. 5 Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of anger are in their nature. 6 I never agreed to their counsels; nor did I lower myself to sit in their assembly; for in their anger they slew men and in their rage they destroyed a town wall. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it is raging: and their wrath, for it is fierce; I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. Genesis 49:1-7, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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