Genesis 49:5 Cross References - MSTC

⁵ The brethren Simeon and Levi, wicked instruments are their weapons.

³³ And she conceived again and bare a son, and said, "The LORD hath heard that I am despised, and hath therefore given me this son also." And she called him Simeon. ³⁴ And she conceived yet, and bare a son, and said, "Now this once will my husband keep me company, because I have borne him three sons." And therefore she called his name Levi.

²⁵ And the third day, when it was painful to them, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dina's brethren, took either of them his sword and went into the city boldly, and slew all that was male; ²⁶ and slew also Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dina their sister out of Shechem's house, and went their way. ²⁷ Then came the sons of Jacob upon the deed, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister: ²⁸ and took their sheep, oxen, asses and whatsoever was in the city and also in the fields. ²⁹ And all their goods, all their children and their wives took they captive, and made havoc of all that was in the houses. ³⁰ And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "Ye have troubled me, and made me stink unto the inhabiters of the land, both to the Canaanites and also unto the Perizzites. And I am few in number. Wherefore they shall gather themselves together against me and slay me, and so shall I and my house be destroyed." ³¹ And they answered, "Should they deal with our sister as with an whore?"

¹⁰ The children of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. ¹¹ The children of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

⁹ Whoso is slothful and slack in his labor, is the brother of him that is a waster.