Genesis 49:3–4

3 Reuben, you are my first-born,

my might, and the first fruits of my strength,

pre-eminent in pride and pre-eminent in power.

4 Unstable as water, you shall not have pre-eminence

because you went up to your father’s bed;

then you defiled it—you went up to my couch!

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