Genesis 35:22

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Summary

And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

Lay with

Now the sons

General references

Genesis 44:7

Leviticus 18:8

Deuteronomy 27:20

Bible References

Lay with

Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness.

Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong."

David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn't go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

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 reckoned after the birthright.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.

Now the sons

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):

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.

These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.

Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah,

Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: [of] Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance:

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of Yahweh.

Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri the ruler: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah:

He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:

The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

General references

They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness.

'Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'