Learning From OT Greats: Jacob – Wrestling With Purpose

A Father's Path

In the Beginning: A Study in Genesis 37-50

Origins: The Dreamers (Genesis 42–50)

Advent: Catholic Reflections

Year of the Bible: Part Two of Twelve 

The Thread: Part II

Genesis 49:3-4

Jacob said, ‘Reuben you are my firstborn son. You were born first, when I was a strong young man. Of all my sons, you are the most famous and the strongest.
Yet you are as wild as the sea. You had sex with your father's slave wife. This bad thing brought me shame. So you will not become great.