While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
Genesis 49:4 - Y'all Version Bible Uncontrolled like water, you must not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it—he went up to my couch! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not: because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and didst defile his couch. |
While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright.
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among y’all, and such sexual immorality as is not even among the ethnic groups, that a man has his father’s wife.
‘Cursed is anyone who lies with his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’ All the people will say, ‘Amen.’
“You must not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither are you to desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male slave, or his female slave, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
They have eyes full of adultery and never-ending sin, seducing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed—accursed children!
speaking this way and of these things in all his letters. Some things in them are difficult to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort, as they do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.