Verse 3
Genesis 49:3
Noah Webster Bible
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Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellence of dignity, and the excellence 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
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And Jacob called to his sons, and said, Assemble yourselves, that I may tell you that which shall be...
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Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob: and hearken to Israel your father.
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Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellence of dignit...
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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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Simeon and Levi are brethren: instruments of cruelty are in, their habitations.
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O my soul, come not thou into their secret; to their assembly, my honor, be not thou united: for in...
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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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Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise; thy hand shall be on the neck of thy enemies: thy...
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Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou hast gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a...
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The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh shall co...
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Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine,...
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His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
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Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for a haven of ships; and his border sh...
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Issachar is a strong ass, couching down between two burdens:
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And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, an...
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Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
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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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I have waited for thy salvation O LORD.
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Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
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Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
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Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
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Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
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The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
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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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Even by the God (Elohim) of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless th...
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The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors to the utmost bound...
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Benjamin shall raven as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divid...
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All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it which their father spoke to them, and bles...
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And he charged them, and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in...
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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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(There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and the...
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The purchase of the field and of the cave that is in it, was from the children of Heth.
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And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he drew his feet into the bed, and expired, a...
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