3
“Reuben, you are my firstborn;
My might and (A)the beginning of my strength,
(a)Preeminent in dignity and (b)preeminent in power.
4
(c)Uncontrolled as water, you shall not have preeminence,
(B)Because you went up to your father’s bed;
Then you defiled it—he went up to my couch.

Footnotes:

a. Genesis 49:3: ['Lit ', preeminence]
b. Genesis 49:3: ['Lit ', preeminence]
c. Genesis 49:4: ['Or ', Boiling over, '; lit ', Recklessness]