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Genesis 49:4

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Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

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  1. Genesis 49:2

    Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

  2. Genesis 49:3

    Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

  3. Genesis 49:5

    Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

  4. Genesis 49:6

    O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.