²⁵ It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.

⁵ "Simeon and Levi are brothers; Weapons of violence are their swords.

⁶ My soul, don't come into their council; My glory, don't be united to their assembly; For in their anger they killed a man, In their self-will they hamstrung an ox.

⁷ Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, Scatter them in Israel.

³³ She conceived again, and bare a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon.

³⁴ She conceived again, and bare a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.

⁷ They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.

¹⁷ Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

⁶ For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh: to whom Yahweh swore that he wouldn't let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁸ It happened, when they had done circumcising all the nation, that they abode in their places in the camp, until they were whole.

²⁵ But Hezekiah didn't render again according to the benefit done to him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.

¹⁶ For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

³⁴ For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won't spare in the day of vengeance.

³⁵ He won't regard any ransom, Neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.