Genesis 49:4

Modern English Version

Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed; then you defiled it—he went up to my couch.

Cross References

Genesis 35:22

When Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

Genesis 46:8

These were the names of the sons of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who came to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.

1 Chronicles 5:1

Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but since he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that the genealogy is not listed according to the birthright;

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that a man has his father’s wife.

Deuteronomy 27:20

“Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, for he dishonors his father.” And all the people shall say, “Amen.”

Deuteronomy 33:6

Let Reuben live, and not die, and let not his men be few.

Deuteronomy 5:21

You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor shall you covet your neighbor’s house, his field, his male servant, his female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin. They entice unstable souls. Their hearts are trained in greed. They are cursed children!

2 Peter 3:16

As in all his letters, he writes about these things, in which some things are hard to understand, which the unlearned and unstable distort, as they also do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.