Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed.
Then she became with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Because it has come to the Lord's ears that I am not loved, he has given me this son in addition: and she gave him the name Simeon.
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.
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.
Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;
And turning away from them, he was overcome with weeping; then he went on talking to them again and took Simeon and put chains on him before their eyes.
And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.
Then the servant said, peace be with you: have no fear: your God, even the God of your father, has put wealth in your bags for you: I had your money. Then he let Simeon come out to them.
And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan;
And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as reuben and Simeon are.
Simeon and levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs.
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan: these are the families of Simeon.
Then Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and a great cry went up from Egypt; for there was not a house where someone was not dead.
Or anyone touching any unclean thing which goes flat on the earth, or someone by whom he may be made unclean in any way whatever;
From Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai;
The generations of the sons of Simeon were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war;
Fifty-nine thousand, three hundred of the tribe of Simeon were numbered.
And nearest to him, the tribe of Simeon, with Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, as their chief.
On the fifth day Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, chief of the children of Simeon:
And at the head of the army of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai.
Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat, the son of Hori.
Now the man of Israel who was put to death with the woman of midian was Zimri, the son of Salu, a chief of one of the families of the Simeonites.
The sons of Simeon by their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:
These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand, two hundred.
And Nebo and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the towns they made.
And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel, the son of Ammihud.
These are to take their places on Mount Gerizim for blessing the people when you have gone over Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin;
Heshbon and all her towns in the table-land; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon;
And the second heritage came out for the tribe of Simeon by their families; and their heritage was in the middle of the heritage of the children of Judah.
And all the unwalled places round about these towns as far as Baalath-beer-ramah to the south. This is the heritage of the tribe of Simeon by their families.
The heritage of Simeon was taken out of Judah's stretch of land, for Judah's part was more than they had need of, so the heritage of the children of Simeon was inside their heritage.
And the heritage came out for the families of the Kohathites: the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.
From the tribes of the children of Judah and the children of Simeon they gave these towns, listed here by name:
Then Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my heritage, so that we may make war against the Canaanites; and I will then go with you into your heritage. So Simeon went with him.
And Judah went with Simeon, his brother, and overcame the Canaanites living in Zephath, and put it under the curse; and he gave the town the name of Hormah.
And David, moved by a strong desire, said, If only someone would give me a drink of water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem, by the doorway into the town!
And someone went and said to his lord, This is what the girl from the land of Israel says.
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun;
And Meonothai was the father of Ophrah; and seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of Ge-harashim; they were expert workmen.
The sons of Simeon: Nemuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
And some of them, five hundred of the sons of Simeon, went to the hill-country of Seir, with Pelatiah and Neariah and Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, at their head.
And Bela, the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who was living in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-meon;
And they gave by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these towns whose names are given.
And David, moved by a strong desire, said, If only someone would give me a drink of the water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem by the doorway into the town!
Seven thousand, one hundred of the children of Simeon, great men of war;
And over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer, the son of Zichri; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah, the son of Maacah;
And he got together all Judah and Benjamin and those of Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon who were living with them; for numbers of them came to him out of Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
And in all the towns of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon as far as Naphtali, he made waste their houses round about.
And of the sons of Harim, Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
And on Kiriathaim, and on Beth-gamul, and on Beth-meon,
For this cause, I will let the side of Moab be uncovered, and his towns on every side, the glory of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon and as far as Kiriathaim.
And on the limit of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side: Simeon, one part.
And on the limit of Simeon, from the east side to the west side: Issachar, one part.
And at the south side, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three doors, one for Simeon, one for Issachar, one for Zebulun;
And into whatever town or small place you go, make search there for someone who is respected, and make his house your resting-place till you go away.
And he said, Someone has done this in hate. And the servants say to him, Is it your pleasure that we go and take them up?
And there was then in Jerusalem a man whose name was Simeon; and he was an upright man, fearing God and waiting for the comfort of Israel: and the Holy spirit was on him.
And Simeon gave them his blessing and said to Mary, his mother, See, this child will be the cause of the downfall and the lifting up of great numbers of people in Israel, and he will be a sign against which hard words will be said;
The son of Symeon, the son of Judas, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,
And someone said to him, Your mother and your brothers are outside desiring to see you.
But Jesus said, Someone was touching me, for I had the feeling that power had gone out from me.
While he was still talking, someone came from the house of the ruler of the Synagogue, saying, Your daughter is dead; do not go on troubling the Master.
And someone said to him, Lord, will only a small number have salvation? And he said to them,
And he said, No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, their hearts would be changed.
And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.
And someone came and said to them, The men, whom you put in prison, are in the Temple teaching the people.
For before this there was Theudas, who said he was someone important, to whom about four hundred men gave their support: he was put to death, and his band was broken up and came to nothing.
Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of herod the king, and Saul.
Symeon has given an account of how God was first pleased to take from among the Gentiles a people for himself.
And when the people saw it hanging on his hand, they said to one another, Without doubt this man has put someone to death, and though he has got safely away from the sea, God will not let him go on living.
Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.
Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?
If any man makes use of a tongue, let it not be more than two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let someone give the sense:
But someone will say, How do the dead come back? and with what sort of body do they come?
But let it be so, that I was not a trouble to you myself; but (someone may say) being false, I took you with deceit.
And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.
Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand: of the tribe of levi twelve thousand: of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand:
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