Genesis 49:5 Cross References - Great

⁵ The brethren Simeon and Leui, cruell instrumentes in their habitacions.

³³ And she conceaued agayne and bare a sonne, and sayde: the Lorde hath herde that I am despysed, and hath therfore geuen me thys sonne also, and she called hys name Simeon. ³⁴ And she conceaued yet, & bare a sonne, and sayde: nowe thys once wyll my husbande kepe me company, because I haue borne hym .iii. sonnes: and therfore was hys name called Leui.

²⁵ And it happened the thyrde daye (when it was paynefull to them) .ij. of the sonnes of Iacob Symeon and Leui Dinas brethren, toke ether of them his swerde and went in to the cytie boldly, and slewe all that was male, ²⁶ and slewe also Hemor and Sichem hys sonne with the edge of the swerde, and toke Dina out of Sichems house, and went their waye. ²⁷ And the sonnes of Iacob commynge vpon the deed, spoyled the cytie, because they had defyled their syster: ²⁸ & toke their shepe, oxen, and their asses and whatsoeuer was in the cytie and also in the feldes. ²⁹ And all their goodes & all their chyldren, and theyr wyues toke they captiue and made hauouck of all that was in the house. ³⁰ But Iacob sayde to Simeon and Leui: ye haue troubled me and made me styncke before the inhabitours of the lande, before the Canaanyte and the Pherezite. And I beynge fewe in nombre, they shall gather them selues together agaynst me & sley me, and so shall I and my house be destroyed. ³¹ And they answered: shulde they deale with oure syster as with an whoore.

¹⁰ The chyldren of Symeon: Iemuel, Iamin, Ohad, Iachin, & Zohar & Saul the sonne of a Cananitish woman. ¹¹ The chyldren of Leui: Gerson, Kahath and Merari.

⁹ Who so is slouthfull and slacke in hys laboure, is the brother of him that is a waster.