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Genesis 49:6
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4 Unstable as water, you shall not excel,
Because you awent up to your father’s bed;
Then you defiled it—
He went up to my couch. 
5 “Simeon and Levi are brothers;
Instruments of1 cruelty are in their dwelling place. 
6 aLet not my soul enter their council;
Let not my honor be united bto their assembly;
cFor in their anger they slew a man,
And in their self-will they1 hamstrung an ox. 
7 Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce;
And their wrath, for it is cruel!
aI will divide them in Jacob
And scatter them in Israel. 
8 “Judah,a you are he whom your brothers shall praise;
bYour hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
cYour father’s children shall bow down before you. 
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John Wesley's Notes
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Genesis 49:6

They slew a man - Shechem himself, and many others; and to effect that, they digged down a wall, broke the houses to plunder them, and murder the inhabitants. O my soul, come not thou into their secret - Hereby he professeth not only his abhorrence of such practices in general, but his innocency particularly in that matter. Perhaps he had been suspected as under - hand aiding and abetting; he therefore solemnly expresseth his detestation of the fact.




Other John Wesley's Notes entries containing Genesis 49:6:

Deuteronomy 33:1
1 Chronicles 4:27

 

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