Genesis 49:4

4 As wild as the waters, you won't endure, for you went up to your father's bed, you went up and violated my couch.

Genesis 49:4 In-Context

2 Assemble yourselves and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to Israel your father.
3 Reuben, you are my oldest son, my strength and my first contender, superior in status and superior in might.
4 As wild as the waters, you won't endure, for you went up to your father's bed, you went up and violated my couch.
5 Simeon and Levi are brothers, weapons of violence their stock in trade.
6 May I myself never enter their council. May my honor never be linked to their group; for when they were angry, they killed men, and whenever they wished, they maimed oxen.

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