Genesis 49:3 - Revised Standard Version

³ Reuben, you are my first-born, my might, and the first fruits of my strength, pre-eminent in pride and pre-eminent in power.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, The excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, the beginning (the firstfruits) of my manly strength and vigor; [your birthright gave you] the preeminence in dignity and the preeminence in power.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.

Common English Bible

³ Reuben, you are my oldest son, my strength and my first contender, superior in status and superior in might.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Reuben, my firstborn, you are my strength and the beginning of my sorrow: first in gifts, greater in authority.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Ruben, my firstborn, thou art my strength, and the beginning of my sorrow: excelling in gifts, greater in command.

Genesis 49:3 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 29:32

And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, “Because the Lord has looked upon my affliction; surely now my husband will love me.”

Genesis 35:22

While Israel dwelt 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 35:23

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

Genesis 46:8

Now these are the names of the descendants 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 one is the first-born; put your right hand upon his head.”

1 Chronicles 2:1

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

1 Chronicles 5:1

The sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born; but because he polluted his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he is not enrolled in the genealogy according to the birthright;

1 Chronicles 5:3

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

Psalm 105:36

He smote all the first-born in their land, the first issue of all their strength.

Psalm 78:51

He smote all the first-born in Egypt, the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.

Ezekiel 48:6

Adjoining the territory of Ephraim, from the east side to the west, Reuben, one portion.

Numbers 1:20

The people of Reuben, Israel's first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war:

Numbers 26:5

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

Deuteronomy 21:17

but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the disliked, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the first issue of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.

Deuteronomy 27:13

And these shall stand upon Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

Deuteronomy 33:6

“Let Reuben live, and not die, nor let his men be few.”

Revelation 3:14

“And to the angel of the church in La-odicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.