Genesis 49:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity, waging war.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not: because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and didst defile his couch.

Genesis 49:4 Cross References

Genesis 35:22

3 The sons of Lia: Ruben the firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Juda, and Issachar, and Zebulon.

Genesis 46:8

The sons of Ruben: Henoch and Phallu, and Hesron and Charmi.

1 Chronicles 5:1

Beera his son, whom Thelgathphalnasar king of the Assyrians carried away captive, and he was prince in the tribe of Ruben.

1 Corinthians 5:1

0 I mean not with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the extortioners, or the servers of idols; otherwise you must needs go out of this world.

Deuteronomy 27:20

5 Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to slay an innocent person: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Deuteronomy 33:6

1 Bless, O Lord, his strength, and receive the works of his hands. Strike the backs of his enemies, and let not them that hate him rise.

Deuteronomy 5:21

6 What is all flesh, that it should hear the voice of the living God, who speaketh out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and be able to live?

2 Peter 2:14

Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in which I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind:

2 Peter 3:16

But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.