Genesis 49:2-4

Jubilee Bible 2000

² Gather yourselves together and hear, ye sons of Jacob, and hearken unto Israel your father.

³ Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, principal in dignity, and the principal in power.

⁴ Unstable as water, thou shalt not be principal because thou didst go up to thy father’s bed; then thou became defiled, going up to my couch.