Genesis 49:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded.

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  • Ps 26:9 : 9 Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;
  • Gen 34:30 : 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.
  • Ps 57:8 : 8 You are my glory; let the instruments of music be awake; I myself will be awake with the dawn.
  • Ps 64:2 : 2 Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil;
  • Ps 16:9 : 9 Because of this my heart is glad, and my glory is full of joy: while my flesh takes its rest in hope.
  • Ps 26:4-5 : 4 I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men. 5 I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.
  • Gen 34:25-26 : 25 But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put all the males to death. 26 And Hamor and his son they put to death with the sword, and they took Dinah from Shechem's house and went away.
  • Ps 94:20-21 : 20 What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law? 21 They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.
  • Ps 103:1 : 1 <Of David.> Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let everything in me give praise to his holy name.
  • Ps 139:19 : 19 If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.
  • Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;
  • Prov 1:15-16 : 15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways: 16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.
  • Prov 12:5 : 5 The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.
  • Jer 4:19 : 19 My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.
  • Jer 15:17 : 17 I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.
  • Luke 12:19 : 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.
  • 2 Cor 6:14 : 14 Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?
  • Deut 27:24 : 24 Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly. And let all the people say, So be it.
  • Judg 5:21 : 21 The river Kishon took them violently away, stopping their flight, the river Kishon. Give praise, O my soul, to the strength of the Lord!
  • Ps 1:1 : 1 Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.
  • Ps 5:10 : 10 Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.
  • Ps 28:3 : 3 Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.
  • Ps 30:12 : 12 So that my glory may make songs of praise to you and not be quiet. O Lord my God, I will give you praise for ever.
  • Ps 42:5 : 5 Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
  • Ps 42:11 : 11 Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
  • Ps 43:5 : 5 Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

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  • 7 A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.

  • Gen 49:4-5
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    4 But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean.

    5 Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs.

  • Gen 34:29-30
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    29 And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.

    30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

  • Prov 1:11-12
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    11 If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

    12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

  • 9 Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;

  • 6 They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

  • Obad 1:12-13
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    12 Do not see with pleasure your brother's evil day, the day of his fate, and do not be glad over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction, or make wide your mouth on the day of trouble.

    13 Do not go into the doors of my people on the day of their downfall; do not be looking on their trouble with pleasure on the day of their downfall, or put your hands on their goods on the day of their downfall.

  • 9 And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.

  • 10 You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.

  • Ps 62:3-4
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    3 How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

    4 Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

  • 20 As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

  • 27 Let their punishment be increased; let them not come into your righteousness.

  • Ps 59:11-12
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    11 Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.

    12 Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

  • 21 They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

  • 15 Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

  • 3 Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

  • 27 And the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded and made waste the town because of what had been done to their sister;

  • 25 But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put all the males to death.

  • 9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

  • 15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

  • Jer 18:22-23
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    22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

    23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

  • 9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • 5 For they have all come to an agreement; they are all joined together against you:

  • 6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

  • 7 Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done.

  • 7 For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

  • 10 I have had Esau searched out, uncovering his secret places, so that he may not keep himself covered: his seed is wasted and has come to an end, and there is no help from his neighbours.

  • 6 See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.

  • 3 For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
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    6 And I had two sons, and the two of them had a fight in the field, and there was no one to come between them, and one with a blow put the other to death.

    7 And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

  • 10 Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

  • 20 Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams.

  • 29 If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.

  • 26 Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.

  • 18 But they saw him when he was a long way off, and before he came near them they made a secret design against him to put him to death;

  • 25 For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.