22 Now when Israel dwelt in that land, Reuben went and [a]lay (A)with Bilhah his father’s concubine, and it came to Israel’s ear. And Jacob had twelve sons.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 35:22 This teacheth that the fathers were not chosen for their merits, but by God’s only mercies, whose election by their faults was not changed.

Thou wast light as water: thou shalt not be excellent, because (A)thou wentest up to thy father’s bed: [a]then diddest thou defile my bed, thy dignity is gone.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:4 Or, it ceased to be my bed.

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