Genesis 49:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Simeon and Levi are brethren; Instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Simeon and Levi are brothers [equally headstrong, deceitful, vindictive, and cruel]; their swords are weapons of violence. [Gen. 34:25-29.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords.

Common English Bible

⁵ Simeon and Levi are brothers, weapons of violence their stock in trade.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ The brothers Simeon and Levi: vessels of iniquity waging war.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity, waging war.

Genesis 49:5 Cross References

Proverbs 18:9

One who is slack in work is close kin to a vandal.

Ezekiel 48:24

Adjoining the territory of Benjamin, from the east side to the west, Simeon, one portion.

Numbers 34:20

Of the tribe of the Simeonites, Shemuel son of Ammihud.

Joshua 21:8

These towns and their pasturelands the Israelites gave by lot to the Levites, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.

Revelation 7:7

from the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, from the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, from the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand,