Genesis 49:5

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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

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

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

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

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