Genesis 49:4

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

Genesis 35:22

And when he was living in that region, Reuben went out, and he slept with Bilhah the concubine of his father, which was not such a small matter as to be hidden from him. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

Genesis 46:8

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who entered into Egypt, he with his children. The firstborn is Reuben.

1 Chronicles 5:1

Also, there were the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel. For indeed, he was his firstborn, but when he had violated the bed of his father, his right as firstborn was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, and he was not reputed as firstborn.

1 Corinthians 5:1

Above all else, it is being said that there is fornication among you, even fornication of a such kind that is not among the Gentiles, so that someone would have the wife of his father.

Deuteronomy 27:20

Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, and so exposes the covering of his bed. And all the people shall say: Amen.

Deuteronomy 33:6

Let Ruben live, and not die, and may he be small in number."

Deuteronomy 5:21

You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his house, nor his field, nor his man servant, nor his woman servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything out of all that is his.'

2 Peter 2:14

having eyes full of adultery and of incessant offenses, luring unstable souls, having a heart well-trained in avarice, sons of curses!

2 Peter 3:16

just as he also spoke in all of his epistles about these things. In these, there are certain things which are difficult to understand, which the unlearned and the unsteady distort, as they also do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.