1Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.
2Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob; Listen to Israel, your father.
3"Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.
4Boiling over as water, you shall not have the pre-eminence; Because you went up to your father`s bed; Then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
5"Simeon and Levi are brothers; Weapons of violence are their swords.
6My soul, don`t come into their council; My glory, don`t be united to their assembly; For in their anger they killed a man, In their self-will they hamstrung an ox.
7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; Their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, Scatter them in Israel.
