Genesis 49:5

New American Bible - revised edition

“Simeon and Levi, brothers indeed, weapons of violence are their knives.

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Those slack in their work are kin to the destroyer.

Along the territory of Benjamin from the eastern border to the western border: Simeon, one portion.

from the tribe of the Simeonites: Samuel, son of Ammihud;

These cities with their pasture lands the Israelites gave by lot to the Levites, as the Lord had commanded through Moses. Cities of the Priests.

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