Genesis 49:3-4

Genesis 49:3-4 AFV

Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power. Unstable as water, you shall not excel because you went up to your father’s bed; then you defiled it. He went up to my couch.

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