Genesis 49:4

Good News Translation

You are like a raging flood, But you will not be the most important, For you slept with my concubine And dishonored your father's bed.

Cross References

Genesis 35:22

While Jacob was living in that land, Reuben had sexual intercourse with Bilhah, one of his father's concubines; Jacob heard about it and was furious. Jacob had twelve sons.

Genesis 46:8

The members of Jacob's family who went to Egypt with him were his oldest son Reuben

1 Chronicles 5:1

These are the descendants of Reuben, the oldest of Jacob's sons. (Because he had sex with one of his father's concubines, he lost the rights belonging to the first-born son, and those rights were given to Joseph.

1 Corinthians 5:1

Now, it is actually being said that there is sexual immorality among you so terrible that not even the heathen would be guilty of it. I am told that a man is sleeping with his stepmother!

Deuteronomy 27:20

“‘God's curse on anyone who disgraces his father by having intercourse with any of his father's wives.’ “And all the people will answer, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 33:6

Moses said about the tribe of Reuben: “May Reuben never die out, Although their people are few.”

Deuteronomy 5:21

“‘Do not desire another man's wife; do not desire his house, his land, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns.’

2 Peter 2:14

They want to look for nothing but the chance to commit adultery; their appetite for sin is never satisfied. They lead weak people into a trap. Their hearts are trained to be greedy. They are under God's curse!

2 Peter 3:16

This is what he says in all his letters when he writes on the subject. There are some difficult things in his letters which ignorant and unstable people explain falsely, as they do with other passages of the Scriptures. So they bring on their own destruction.