Genesis 49:2-4

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² You sons of Jacob, come together now and listen to your father, Israel.’^[a]

Reuben

³ Jacob said, ‘Reuben you are my firstborn son. You were born first, when I was a strong young man. Of all my sons, you are the most famous and the strongest.

⁴ Yet you are as wild as the sea. You had sex with your father's slave wife. This bad thing brought me shame. So you will not become great.^[b]