Genesis 49:4
Uncontrollable as rushing water, 1 you will not have the preeminence, 1 because you went up to your father's bed. 1 Then you defiled it; you went up to my couch. 1
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5Simeon and Levi are brothers. 1 Weapons of violence are their swords. 1
Cross References
Genesis 46:8These were the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt: Jacob and his sons, Reuben, Jacob's firstborn;
Deuteronomy 5:21You will not covet your neighbor's wife, you will not covet your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.'
Deuteronomy 33:6Let Reuben live and not die, 1 but may his men be few.
1 Corinthians 5:1We heard a report that there is sexual immorality among you, a kind of immorality that is not even permitted among the Gentiles. The report is that one of you is sleeping with his father's wife.
2 Peter 2:14They have eyes full of adultery, they are never satisfied with sin. They entice unstable souls into wrongdoing, and they have their hearts trained in covetousness. They are cursed children!
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 →