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

Reuben, you are my first-born,
my might, and the first fruits of my strength,
pre-eminent in pride and pre-eminent in power.
Unstable as water, you shall not have pre-eminence
because you went up to your father's bed;
then you defiled it—you went up to my couch!