Genesis 49:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ “Boiling like water, you do not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, then you defiled it – he went up to my couch.

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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

And it came to be, when Yisra’ĕ

Genesis 46:8

And these were the names of the children of Yisra’ĕ

1 Chronicles 5:1

As for the sons of Re’uḇ

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is commonly reported that there is whoring among you, and such whoring as is not even named among the gentiles, so as one to have his father’s wife!

Deuteronomy 27:20

‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he has uncovered his father’s bed.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amĕ

Deuteronomy 33:6

“Let Re’uḇ

Deuteronomy 5:21

‘You do not covet your neighbour’s wife, nor do you desire your neighbour’s house, his field, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, his ox, nor his donkey, or whatever belongs to your neighbour.’

2 Peter 2:14

having eyes filled with an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable beings, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse,

2 Peter 3:16

as also in all his letters, speaking in them concerning these matters, in which some are hard to understand, which those who are untaught and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do also the other Scriptures.