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Genesis 49:2-4
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Genesis 49:2-4
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
2 Assemble and hear, O sons of Jacob,
and hearken to Israel your father.
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.
4 Unstable as water, you shall not have pre-eminence
because you went up to your father’s bed;
then you defiled it—you[a] went up to my couch!
Footnotes
- Genesis 49:4 Gk Syr Tg: Heb he
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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