Genesis 49:5

English Standard Version 2016

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

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Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.

Of the tribe of the people of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.

These cities and their pasturelands the people of Israel gave by lot to the Levites, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.

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

12,000 from the tribe of Simeon, 12,000 from the tribe of Levi, 12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,