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Genesis 49:2-4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Genesis 49:2-4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
2 Assemble and hear, O sons of Jacob;
listen to Israel your father.
3 ‘Reuben, you are my firstborn,
my might and the first fruits of my vigour,
excelling in rank and excelling in power.
4 Unstable as water, you shall no longer excel
because you went up on to your father’s bed;
then you defiled it—you[a] went up on to my couch!
Footnotes
- Genesis 49:4 Gk Syr Tg: Heb he
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)
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