Genesis 49:3-5

Jubilee Bible 2000

³ Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, principal in dignity, and the principal in power.

⁴ Unstable as water, thou shalt not be principal because thou didst go up to thy father’s bed; then thou became defiled, going up to my couch.

⁵ ¶ Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of injustice are their weapons.