1 Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather together so that I can tell you what will happen with you in days to come.
2 Assemble and hear, O sons of Jacob! Listen to Israel your father!
3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength, and the firstfruit of my vigor, excelling in rank and excelling in power.
4 Unstable as water, you shall not excel any longer, for you went up upon the bed of your father, then defiled it. You went up upon my couch!
5 Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords. Let me not come into their council.
6 Let not my person be joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and at their pleasure they hamstrung cattle.