Genesis 49:3 - The Scriptures 2009

³ “Re’uḇĕn, you are my first-born, my power and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of exaltation and the excellency of power.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, The excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, the beginning (the firstfruits) of my manly strength and vigor; [your birthright gave you] the preeminence in dignity and the preeminence in power.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.

Common English Bible

³ Reuben, you are my oldest son, my strength and my first contender, superior in status and superior in might.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Reuben, my firstborn, you are my strength and the beginning of my sorrow: first in gifts, greater in authority.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Ruben, my firstborn, thou art my strength, and the beginning of my sorrow: excelling in gifts, greater in command.

Genesis 49:3 Cross References

Genesis 29:32

And Lĕ’ah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Re’uḇĕn, for she said, “For יהוה has looked on my affliction, because now my husband is going to love me.”

Genesis 35:22

And it came to be, when Yisra’ĕl dwelt in that land, that Re’uḇĕn went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine. And Yisra’ĕl heard about it. Now the sons of Ya‛aqoḇ were twelve:

Genesis 35:23

the sons of Lĕ’ah were Re’uḇĕn, Ya‛aqoḇ’s first-born, and Shim‛on, and Lĕwi, and Yehuḏah, and Yissasḵar, and Zeḇulun;

Genesis 46:8

And these were the names of the children of Yisra’ĕl, Ya‛aqoḇ and his sons, who came into Mitsrayim: Re’uḇĕn was Ya‛aqoḇ’s first-born.

Genesis 48:18

And Yosĕph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this one is the first-born, put your right hand on his head.”

1 Chronicles 2:1

These were the sons of Yisra’ĕl: Re’uḇĕn, Shim‛on, Lĕwi and Yehuḏah, Yissasḵar and Zeḇulun,

1 Chronicles 5:1

As for the sons of Re’uḇĕn the first-born of Yisra’ĕl – he was the first-born, but because he profaned his father’s bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Yosĕph, son of Yisra’ĕl, so that the genealogy is not listed according to the birthright,

1 Chronicles 5:3

the sons of Re’uḇĕn the first-born of Yisra’ĕl: Ḥanoḵ and Pallu, Ḥetsron and Karmi.

Psalm 105:36

Then He struck all the first-born in their land, The first-fruit of all their strength,

Psalm 78:51

And He struck all the first-born in Mitsrayim, The first-fruits of strength in the tents of Ḥam,

Ezekiel 48:6

“And by the border of Ephrayim, from the east side to the west, Re’uḇĕn: one.

Numbers 1:20

And the children of Re’uḇĕn, Yisra’ĕl’s first-born, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, every male head by head, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,

Numbers 26:5

Re’uḇĕn, first-born of Yisra’ĕl, sons of Re’uḇĕn: of Ḥanoḵ, the clan of the Ḥanoḵites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites;

Deuteronomy 21:17

“But he is to acknowledge the son of the unloved wife as the first-born by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength – the right of the first-born is his.

Deuteronomy 27:13

“And these are to stand on Mount Ěyḇal to curse: Re’uḇĕn, Gaḏ, and Ashĕr, and Zeḇulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

Deuteronomy 33:6

Let Re’uḇĕn live, and not die, and let his men be numbered.

Revelation 3:14

“And to the messenger of the assembly in Laodikeia write, ‘The Amĕn, the Trustworthy and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of Elohim, says this: