Genesis 49:3

Modern King James Version

Reuben, you are my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power.

Cross References

Genesis 29:32

And Leah conceived and bore a son. And she called his name Reuben, for she said, Surely Jehovah has looked upon my afflictions. Now therefore my husband will love me.

Genesis 35:22

And it happened when Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine. And Israel heard it. And the sons of Jacob were twelve:

Genesis 35:23

The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.

Genesis 46:8

And these were the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's first-born.

Genesis 48:18

And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father. For this is the first-born. Put your right hand on his head.

1 Chronicles 2:1

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

1 Chronicles 5:1

And the sons of Reuben, the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born; but since he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and the genealogy is not to be counted according to the birthright;

1 Chronicles 5:3

the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

Psalm 105:36

He also struck all the first-born in their land, the chief of all their strength.

Psalm 78:51

and struck all the first-born in Egypt, the first of the strong in the tents of Ham;

Ezekiel 48:6

And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, one part for Reuben.

Numbers 1:20

And the sons of Reuben, Israel's first-born son, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, by their heads, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:

Numbers 26:5

Reuben, the first-born of Israel, the sons of Reuben, of Hanoch who came of the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu the family of the Palluites;

Deuteronomy 21:17

But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated as the first-born by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the first-born is his.

Deuteronomy 27:13

And these shall stand on Mount Ebal to curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

Deuteronomy 33:6

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

Revelation 3:14

And to the angel of the church of the Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Head of the creation of God, says these things: