No seu concílio não entres, ó minha alma! com a sua assembléia não te ajuntes, ó minha glória! porque no seu furor <span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','Refere-se não à carnificina de Chekhem, que foi feita segundo os ditames das Leis de Noé, segundo recebera de Deus - pois nela o raptor deve ser julgado e condenado à morte por espada, e a cidade que não julgar o infrator, incorre toda ela em julgamento e execução igual à do infrator - senão ao fato de que quase levaram ao exício a semente de Abraham, que quase teve fim por seu ato de vingança em seu furor, ao matarem os habitantes de Chekhem. Nestas palavras, Jacob se dirige a eles como se não houvesse ocorrido o milagre do livramento do ataque dos demais cananeus de outras cidades, que é como se houvessem matado a todos os filhos de Israel.');" onmouseout="Hide('perush');">mataram homens</span>, e na sua teima <span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','Heb.: /Um touro”, e refere-se a José, que adiante é comparado a um touro em sua bênção tribal. Quase deram fim a ambas as tribos de Efraim e Menachê com o assassinato premeditado, ou com a venda de José ao Egito.');" onmouseout="Hide('perush');">jarretaram bois</span>.
Shenei Luchot HaBerit
When people pronounce a ban, חרם, on someone or something, they have to be most circumspect even when the ban is in itself of a forbidden nature. One needs to be even more careful when one places someone in a ban in consequence of a permissible legal proceeding. We can examine and learn from the extreme caution practised by Joseph's brothers who entered into a conspiracy of silence not to reveal what had happened to Joseph. The secret was therefore kept. Even G–d Himself did not reveal the secret; the brothers had included Him in those upon whom the vow of silence was imposed. It was only shortly before Jacob's death, when the latter reproved his sons and blessed them, that The Holy Spirit revealed to Jacob what had transpired, so that Jacob might be able to admonish his sons prior to his death. During these blessings, Jacob referred pointedly to Shimon and Levi's part in the maltreatment of Joseph (Genesis 49,6 "they tried to uproot the ox"). When a person is close to death, it is time for him to dispense admonitions as well as blessings. Joseph never told his father that his brothers had sold him.
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Shenei Luchot HaBerit
Another difficulty is that we have mentioned earlier is that the brothers had included the שכינה in their conspiracy not to reveal the sale of Joseph to anyone. If Jacob, who was flesh and blood, refused to be associated with the conspiracy of Shimon and Levi, as he said on his deathbed (Genesis 49,6), how could the שכינה have become a party to such a conspiracy?
