“Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.”
Simeon and Levi are brothers — their swords are weapons of violence. The pairing of Simeon and Levi is the acknowledgment of the partnership that produced the massacre of Shechem in Genesis 34. The application: the covenant patriarch names the pattern of the life before he names the consequence.
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