³⁰ Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, ‘You have brought trouble on me,^(A) making me odious to the inhabitants of the land,^(B) the Canaanites and the Perizzites.^(C) We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.’^(D)

⁷ ‘The Lord had his heart set on you and chose you, not because you were more numerous than all peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.