1. And Jacob calleth unto his sons and saith, `Be gathered together, and I declare to you that which doth happen with you in the latter end of the days.
2. `Be assembled, and hear, sons of Jacob, And hearken unto Israel your father.
3. Reuben! my first-born thou, My power, and beginning of my strength, The abundance of exaltation, And the abundance of strength;
4. Unstable as water, thou art not abundant; For thou hast gone up thy father's bed; Then thou hast polluted: My couch he went up!
5. Simeon and Levi [are] brethren! Instruments of violence--their espousals!