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Genesis 49:7 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. "

Genesis 49:7

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5 “Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

6 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.

7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

8 “Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.

9 Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

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Isaiah 43:28

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"Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult.”"

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Jeremiah 10:25

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"Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation."

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Genesis 34:30

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"Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”"

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"My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the male goats, for the LORD of Armies has visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle."

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Psalms 78:21

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"Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,"

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Joshua 19:1-9

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"The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Judah."

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Genesis 49:1

"Jacob 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."

Genesis 49:2

"Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father."

Genesis 49:3

"“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in dignity, and excelling in power."

Genesis 49:4

"Boiling over like water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch."

Genesis 49:5

"“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence."

Genesis 49:6

"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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