2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob; Listen to Israel, your father.
3 'Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.
4 Boiling over as water, you shall not have the pre-eminence; Because you went up to your father's bed; Then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
5 'Simeon and Levi are brothers; Weapons of violence are their swords.
6 My soul, don't come into their council; My glory, don't be united to their assembly; For in their anger they killed a man, In their self-will they hamstrung an ox.
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