Genesis 49:4
You are being poured out like water, may you not increase. For you climbed onto your father’s bed, and you defiled his resting place.
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In Context
5The brothers Simeon and Levi: vessels of iniquity waging war.
Cross References
Genesis 46:8Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who entered into Egypt, he with his children. The firstborn is Reuben.
Deuteronomy 5:21You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his house, nor his field, nor his man servant, nor his woman servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything out of all that is his.’
Deuteronomy 33:6Let Ruben live, and not die, and may he be small in number.”
1 Corinthians 5:1Above all else, it is being said that there is fornication among you, even fornication of a such kind that is not among the Gentiles, so that someone would have the wife of his father.
2 Peter 2:14having eyes full of adultery and of incessant offenses, luring unstable souls, having a heart well-trained in avarice, sons of curses!
Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:2-5
Jacob's Prophecy Concerning His Sons. ( b. c. 1689.) 1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befal you in the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. 3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then… Read the whole commentary →