Genesis 49:2-4

New Life Version

² Gather together and hear, O sons of Jacob. Listen to your father Israel.

³ “Reuben, you are my first-born, my power and the beginning of my strength, first in pride and first in power. ⁴ But because you are as wild as water, the first place will not be yours. It is because you went to your father’s bed and made it unclean.