Genesis 49:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² Gather yourselves together, and hear, O ye sons of Jacob, hearken to Israel your father:

³ Ruben, my firstborn, thou art my strength, and the beginning of my sorrow: excelling in gifts, greater in command.

⁴ Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not: because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and didst defile his couch.