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Genesis 49:4

WEB

4Boiling 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.

KJV

4Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

BSB

4Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.

FBV

4But you boil over like water, so you won't be above anyone anymore, because you went and slept with my concubine;[+] you violated my marriage bed.

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Book of Genesis Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) - BibleProject

Extra References

Genesis 35:22

22While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.


1 Chronicles 5:1

1The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright.


Deuteronomy 27:20

20‘Cursed is he who lies with[+] his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’


Deuteronomy 33:6

6Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few.”


1 Corinthians 5:1

1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his fathers wife.


James 1:6-8

6But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. 7For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord. 8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.


Deuteronomy 5:21

21You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”


Genesis 46:8

8These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.


2 Peter 3:16

16as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.


2 Peter 2:14

14having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin, enticing unsettled souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children!