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Levi and Simeon (Leah’s son)

How Levi and Simeon (Leah’s son) are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.

How they are linked

  • Levi and Simeon (Leah’s son) stood together.

    Simeon and Levi acted together to avenge their sister Dinah and put the men of Shechem to the sword. Jacob rebuked them both for making him "to stink among the inhabitants of the land".

    Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword

    Genesis 34:25, King James Version

    Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land

    Genesis 34:30, King James Version

    Where they cross: Genesis 34:25-31

  • Levi and Simeon (Leah’s son) were siblings.

    Simeon and Levi were Leah's second and third sons. Jacob's last words named them together, "Simeon and Levi are brethren", and cursed their anger.

    Simeon and Levi are brethren

    Genesis 49:5, King James Version

    two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren

    Genesis 34:25, King James Version

    The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi

    Genesis 35:23, King James Version

    Where they cross: Genesis 49:5-7

Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.

Every passage, in order

Genesis 34:25-31

25And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.

26And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out.

27The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.

28They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,

29And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

30And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

31And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

Genesis 35:23

23The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:

Genesis 49:5-7

5Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

6O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

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

King James Version

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