Genesis 49:2-4

World English Bible

² Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob.
    Listen to Israel, your father.

³ “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength,
    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,
    then defiled it. He went up to my couch.