Genesis 49:5 Cross References - Matthew

⁵ The brethren Symeon and Leui, wycked instrumentes are their wepons.

³³ And she conceaued agayne & bare a sonne, and sayd: the Lorde hath hearde that I am despysed, & hath therfore geuen me thys Sonne also, & she called hym Simeon. ³⁴ And she conceaued yet, and bare a sonne and sayed: now thys once wyll my husbande kepe me companye, bycause I haue borne him thre sonnes: and therfore she called hys name Leui.

²⁵ And the thyrd day when it was paynfull to them .ij. two of the sons of Iacob Simeon, & Leuy Dinas brethren, toke either of them his swerd & went into the citye boldly, & slewe al that was male, ²⁶ and slewe also Hemor and Sichem his sonne wt the edge of the swerde, and toke Dina their syster oute of Sichems house, and went theyr way. ²⁷ Then came the sonnes of Iacob vpon the dead, & spoyled the city, bicause they had defyled theyr syster: ²⁸ and toke theyr shepe, oxen asses and what so euer was in the citye, and also in the fyeldes. ²⁹ And all theyr goodes, all theyr chyldren, and theyr wyues toke they captiue and made hauocke of al that was in the houses. ³⁰ And Iacob sayd to Simeon and Leui: ye haue troubled me and made me stincke vnto the inhabitours of the Lande, boeth to the Canaanites and also vnto the Pherezites. And I am a fewe in numbre. Wherefore they shal gather them selues togyther against me & slee me, & so shal I and my house be destroied. ³¹ And they answered: shold they deale with our sister as wyth an whore.

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

⁹ Who so is slouthful & slacke in his laboure, is the brother of him that is a waster.