for forty years have the sons of Israel gone in the wilderness, till all the nation of the men of war who are coming out of Egypt, who hearkened not to the voice of Jehovah, to whom Jehovah hath sworn not to show them the land which Jehovah sware to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey, are consumed;

And it cometh to pass when all the nation have completed to be circumcised, that they abide in their places in the camp till their recovering;

And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith, 'Because Jehovah hath heard that I [am] the hated one, He also giveth to me even this [one];' and she calleth his name Simeon.

And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith, 'Now [is] the time, my husband is joined unto me, because I have born to him three sons,' therefore hath [one] called his name Levi.

Simeon and Levi [are] brethren! Instruments of violence -- their espousals!

Cursed [is] their anger, for [it is] fierce, And their wrath, for [it is] sharp; I divide them in Jacob, And I scatter them in Israel.

And they war against Midian, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses, and slay every male;

'And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain;

For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not [some] to stumble.

For jealousy [is] the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance.

He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!

Into their secret, come not, O my soul! Unto their assembly be not united, O mine honour; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will eradicated a prince.

and Hezekiah hath not returned according to the deed [done] unto him, for his heart hath been lofty, and there is wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem;