Genesis 49:5

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

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One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.

“Simeon will have one portion; it will border the territory of Benjamin from east to west.

Shemuel son of Ammihud, from the tribe of Simeon;

So the Israelites allotted to the Levites these towns and their pasturelands, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.

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