Genesis 49:5

New English Translation

Simeon and Levi are brothers, weapons of violence are their knives!

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The one who is slack in his work is a brother to one who destroys.

Next to the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon will have one portion.

from the tribe of the Simeonites, Shemuel son of Ammihud;

So the Israelites assigned to the Levites by lot these cities and their grazing areas, as the Lord had instructed Moses.

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