1. And Jacob called to his sons, and said, Assemble yourselves, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
2. Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob: and hearken to Israel your father.
3. Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellence of dignity, and the excellence of power:
4. Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it; he went up to my couch.
5. Simeon and Levi are brethren: instruments of cruelty are in, their habitations.
6. O my soul, come not thou into their secret; to their assembly, my honor, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall.