Genesis 49:1-7 ▼

1 Then Jacob summoned his sons, and said: |Gather yourselves together so that I may tell you what will happen to you in the days to come.

2 Assemble yourselves and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.

3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength, and the the firstfruits of my virility, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.

4 Uncontrolled as the waters, you will not have excel, because you went up to your father's bed, you went up and defiled my couch.

5 Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

6 May I never enter their council. May my honor never be joined with their assembly. For in their anger they killed men, and for pleasure they hamstrung oxen.

7 Cursed be their anger, for it has been fierce, and their fury, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob,and scatter them in Israel.