Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence,
    because you (A)went up to your father's bed;
    then you defiled it—he went up to my couch!

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Descendants of Reuben

The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel ((A)for he was the firstborn, but because (B)he defiled his father's couch, (C)his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son;

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22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom (A)on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father's concubines (B)in the sight of all Israel.

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And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took (A)the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.

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Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church

It is actually reported that there is (A)sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, (B)for a man has his father's wife.

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