Genesis 49:3

Genesis 49:3

Jacob’s Last Words to His Sons

1 And Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather together, that I may ^atell you what shall befall you ^bin the last days:

2 “Gather together and hear, you sons of Jacob,
And listen to Israel your father.

3 “Reuben, you are ^amy firstborn,
My might and the beginning of my strength,
The excellency of dignity and the excellency of power.

4 Unstable as water, you shall not excel,
Because you ^awent up to your father’s bed;
Then you defiled it—
He went up to my couch.

5 “Simeon and Levi are brothers;
Instruments of¹ cruelty are in their dwelling place.

6 ^aLet not my soul enter their council;
Let not my honor be united ^bto their assembly;
^cFor in their anger they slew a man,
And in their self-will they¹ hamstrung an ox.

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Reuben thou art my first - born - Jacob here puts upon him the ornaments of the birth - right, that he and all his brethren might see what he had forfeited and in that might see the evil of his sin. As the first - born he was his father's joy, being the beginning of his strength. To him belonged the excellency of dignity above his brethren, and some power over them.

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