Genesis 49:3
“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.
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Genesis 49:3
“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.
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Genesis 49:4
Boiling over like water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
1 Chronicles 5:1
The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright.
Genesis 35:22
While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
Deuteronomy 33:6
“Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few.”
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Deuteronomy 21:17
but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
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Psalms 78:51
and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
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Psalms 105:36
He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.
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Genesis 29:32
Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”
Numbers 26:5
Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;
Numbers 1:20
The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
Genesis 46:8
These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
Exodus 6:14
These are the heads of their fathers’ houses. The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.
Numbers 16:1
Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men.
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Genesis 25:31
Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”
Genesis 43:33
They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled with one another.
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Genesis 35:18
As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
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Job 18:12
His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.
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Job 18:13
The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.
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Psalms 127:4
As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.
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