Genesis 49:3

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Summary

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

My firstborn

1 Chronicles 5:1

My might

Deuteronomy 21:17

Psalm 78:51

Psalm 105:36

General references

Numbers 1:20

Deuteronomy 33:6

Bible References

My firstborn

So Leah conceived, and hare a son, and called his name Reuben, - for she said, Because, Yahweh hath looked upon my humiliation, For, now, will my husband love me.

Now, these, are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt - Jacob and his sons, - the firstborn of Jacob, Reuben:

And Joseph said unto his father - Not so, my father! for, this, is the firstborn, lay thy right hand upon his head.

And they were as followeth - The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, in their pedigrees - by their families, by their ancestral houses, in the counting of names, by their polls, every male, from twenty years old and upwards, every one able to go forth to war;

Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, - the sons of Reuben, To Hanoch, pertained the family of the Hanochites; To Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

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

And the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, for, he, was the firstborn, but because he defiled the couch of his father, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, - and he is not to be enrolled in the place of firstborn,

My might

but the true firstborn the son of her that is hated, shall he treat as firstborn by giving him double out of all that is found to be his, - for, he, is the beginning of hi strength, his, is the right of the firstborn.

So he smote, Every first-born in Egypt, The beginning of their strength, in the tents of Ham;

Then smote he every firstborn in their land, The beginning of all their strength;

General references

Let Reuben live and not die, - Nor his men he easily counted.