[a]Uncontrollable as water, you shall not have preeminence,
(A)Because you went up to your father’s bed;
Then you defiled it—he went up to my couch.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:4 Or Gushing over

Genealogy from Reuben

Now the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel (for (A)he was the firstborn, but because (B)he defiled his father’s bed, (C)his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; so he is not enrolled in the genealogy according to the birthright.

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