Genesis 49:2-4

Evangelical Heritage Version

² Assemble together, and listen to this, you sons of Jacob.
Listen to Israel, your father.

³ Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might,
and the beginning of my vigor,
excelling in dignity and excelling in power.

⁴ Boiling over like water, you shall not excel,
because you went up to your father’s bed,
and you defiled it.
He went up to my couch!