Genesis 49:4
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.
Context
This verse from Genesis Chapter 49 connects to 10 cross-references. Jacob gathers his twelve sons and pronounces oracular blessings and curses over each, predicting their tribal destinies: Judah receives the promise of kingship and the scepter until Shiloh comes, while Reuben, Simeon, and Levi receive rebukes. Jacob dies after requesting …
Other Translations
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.
Unstable as water, thou art not abundant; For thou hast gone up thy father's bed; Then thou hast polluted: My couch he went up!
But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean.
Cross References
And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they …
Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt. And all the people shall …
Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or …
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be …
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with …
And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s …
And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s …
Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his …