Verse 3
Genesis 49:3
King James Version
3
Reuben, thou
art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
Original Language Text
hebrew
רְאוּבֵן֙ בְּכֹ֣רִ/י אַ֔תָּה כֹּחִ֖/י וְ/רֵאשִׁ֣ית אוֹנִ֑/י יֶ֥תֶר שְׂאֵ֖ת וְ/יֶ֥תֶר עָֽז
English Translation
Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength and the beginning of my might, the preeminence of dignity and the preeminence of power.
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Chapter 49 Context
1
And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you
that which...
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Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
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3
Reuben, thou
art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity...
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Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst...
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5
Simeon and Levi
are brethren; instruments of cruelty
are in their habitations.
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6
O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: fo...
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7
Cursed
be their anger, for
it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in J...
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8
Judah, thou
art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand
shall be in the neck of thine enemies; t...
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9
Judah
is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a l...
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10
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; an...
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11
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in w...
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12
His eyes
shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
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13
Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he
shall be
for an haven of ships; and his border...
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14
Issachar
is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
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15
And he saw that rest
was good, and the land that
it was
pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, a...
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16
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
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17
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his ri...
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18
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
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19
Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
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20
Out of Asher his bread
shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
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21
Naphtali
is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
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22
Joseph
is a fruitful bough,
even a fruitful bough by a well;
whose branches run over the wall:
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23
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot
at him, and hated him:
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24
But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty...
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25
Even by the God (Elohim) of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless th...
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26
The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bou...
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27
Benjamin shall ravin
as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divid...
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28
All these
are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this
is it that their father spake unto them, and ble...
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29
And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers...
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30
In the cave that
is in the field of Machpelah, which
is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which A...
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31
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and ther...
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32
The purchase of the field and of the cave that
is therein
was from the children of Heth.
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33
And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yie...
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