2 Be assembled and listen, sons of Jacob, and listen to Israel your father.
3 Reuben, my firstborn are you, my vigor and firstborn of my power, endowed with extra dignity, endowed with extra strength—
4 like water boiling over you will not have extra, for you got up into your father’s bed, when you defiled a maid’s couch.
5 Simeon and Levi are brothers, instruments of violence are their knives.
6 In their secret counsel may my soul not enter. In their contingent may my honor never be united. For in their anger they slew men, and in their self-will they maimed oxen.
7 Cursed be their anger for it was strong and their rage for it was cruel— I will disperse them in Jacob, I will scatter them in Israel.
8 Judah, so you are— your brothers will praise you: Your hand will be on your enemies’ neck. Your father’s sons will bow down to you.