3 “You, Reuben, my firstborn,my strength and the first fruit of my vigor,excelling in rank and excelling in power!
4 Turbulent as water, you shall no longer excel,for you climbed into your father’s bedand defiled my couch to my sorrow.
5 “Simeon and Levi, brothers indeed,weapons of violence are their knives.
6 Let not my person enter their council,or my honor be joined with their company;For in their fury they killed men,at their whim they maimed oxen.
7 Cursed be their fury so fierce,and their rage so cruel!I will scatter them in Jacob,disperse them throughout Israel.
8 “You, Judah, shall your brothers praise—your hand on the neck of your enemies;the sons of your father shall bow down to you.
9 Judah is a lion’s cub,you have grown up on prey, my son.He crouches, lies down like a lion,like a lioness—who would dare rouse him?