5 Simeon and Levi are brethren;instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret;unto their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united:for in their anger they slew a man,and in their self-will they digged down a wall.
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, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise:thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies;thy father's children shall bow down before thee.
9 Judah is a lion's whelp:from the prey, my son, thou art gone up:he stooped down, he couched as a lion,and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,nor a lawgiver from between his feet,until Shiloh come;and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
11 Binding his foal unto the vine,and his ass's colt unto the choice vine;he washed his garments in wine,and his clothes in the blood of grapes: