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Genesis 49:6
Genesis 49:6 is verse 6 of Genesis chapter 49, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.
King James Version
O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
World English Bible
My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.
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Genesis 49:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
4 Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
5 Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.
6 May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.
7 Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
8 Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Judges 5:21The River Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the River Kishon. March on, O my soul, in strength!
Psalms 42:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
Psalms 42:11Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
Psalms 43:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
Psalms 103:1Bless the LORD, O my soul; all that is within me, bless His holy name.
Jeremiah 4:19My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.
Luke 12:19Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
Genesis 34:30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
Psalms 5:10Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.
Psalms 26:4I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.
Psalms 26:5I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.
Psalms 28:3Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.
Psalms 94:20Can a corrupt throne be Your ally— one devising mischief by decree?
Psalms 94:21They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
Psalms 139:19O God, that You would slay the wicked— away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
Proverbs 1:11If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
Proverbs 1:15my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.
Proverbs 1:16For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
Proverbs 12:5The plans of the righteous are just, but the counsel of the wicked leads to deceit.
Deuteronomy 27:24‘Cursed is he who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Psalms 26:9Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,
Psalms 64:2Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,
Jeremiah 15:17I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.
Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
2 Corinthians 6:14Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
Psalms 16:9Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell securely.
Psalms 30:12that my heart may sing Your praises and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks forever.
Psalms 57:8Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
Genesis 34:25Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
Genesis 34:26They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.