Genesis 49:2-4

Modern English Version

² Gather yourselves together and hear, sons of Jacob,
    and listen to your father Israel.

³ Reuben, you are my firstborn,
    my might and the beginning of my strength,
    the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.
⁴ Unstable as water, you shall not excel,
    because you went up to your father’s bed;
    then you defiled it—he went up to my couch.