Genesis 49:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁴ Turbulent as water, you will not excel, because you got into your father’s bed and you defiled it #– #he   got into my bed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Unstable 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ But unstable and boiling over like water, you shall not excel and have the preeminence [of the firstborn], because you went to your father's bed; you defiled it–he went to my couch! [Gen. 35:22.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

Common English Bible

⁴ As wild as the waters, you won’t endure, for you went up to your father’s bed, you went up and violated my couch.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Genesis 49:4 Cross References

Genesis 35:22

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

Genesis 46:8

These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt   #– #Jacob and his sons: Jacob’s firstborn: Reuben.

1 Chronicles 5:1

These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. He was the firstborn,  but his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph  son of Israel, because Reuben defiled his father’s bed.  He is not listed in the genealogy according to birthright.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality  among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated  among the Gentiles   #– #a man is sleeping with his father’s wife.

Deuteronomy 27:20

“The one who sleeps with his father’s wife is cursed, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.” And all the people will say, “Amen! ”

Deuteronomy 33:6

Let Reuben live and not die though his people become few.

Deuteronomy 5:21

Do not covet your neighbour’s wife or desire your neighbour’s house, his field, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery  that never stop looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!

2 Peter 3:16

He speaks about these things in all his letters. There are some things hard to understand in them. The untaught and unstable will twist them to their own destruction,  as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.