1 Jacob called to his sons and said, “Gather yourselves together, so that I may tell you what will befall you in the last days.
2 Gather yourselves together and hear, sons of Jacob,and listen to your father Israel.
3 Reuben, you are my firstborn,my might and the beginning of my strength,the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.
4 Unstable as water, you shall not excel,because you went up to your father’s bed;then you defiled it—he went up to my couch.
5 Simeon and Levi are brothers;weapons of violence are their swords.
6 Let my soul not enter into their council;let my glory not be united with their assembly;for in their anger they killed menand in their self-will they hamstrung oxen.
7 Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce;and their wrath, for it is cruel!I will divide them in Jacoband scatter them in Israel.