"“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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Genesis 49,3-4 NKJV.

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