The Testament of Simeon Concerning Envy
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2. Hear, O my children, hear Simeon your
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The Testament of Simeon Concerning Envy
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2. Hear, O my children, hear Simeon your
Gen. xxix. 33.
That Simeon was prominent in the hostility to Joseph, is perhaps implied by his detention in Egypt as a surety for the return of the others; and Jewish tradition generally accords with this view. Cf. the Targum of the Pseudo-Jonathan on Gen. xxxvii. 19: “Simeon and Levi, who were brothers in counsel, said one to another, Let us kill him.” Also this same Targum on Gen. xlii. 24: “And he took from them Simeon, who had counselled to kill him.” Cf. also Breshith Rabba, § 91.
[Gen. xxxvii. 22, 29; xlii. 22.]