“Reuben, you are (A)my firstborn,
    my might, and the (B)firstfruits of my strength,
    preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.
Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence,
    because you (C)went up to your father's bed;
    then you defiled it—he went up to my couch!

(D)“Simeon and Levi are brothers;
    weapons (E)of violence are their swords.
Let my soul come not into their council;
    (F)O my glory, (G)be not joined to their company.
For in their anger they killed men,
    and in their willfulness they (H)hamstrung oxen.
Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce,
    and their wrath, for it is cruel!
I will (I)divide them in Jacob
    and scatter them in Israel.

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