Genesis 49:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

And Leah will conceive and will bring forth a son, and she will call his name Reuben: for she said that Jehovah saw my affliction, for now my husband will love me.

And these the names of the sons of Israel having come to Egypt. Jacob and his sons: the first born of Jacob, Reuben.

And Joseph will say to his father, Not so, my father: for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.

And the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, shall be their generations, according to their families, according to the house of their fathers, according to the number of names, according to their heads, every male from the son of twenty years and above, all going forth to war.

Reuben, the first-born of Israel; the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, the families of the Hanochites: for Pallu, the families of the Palluites

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

And the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel, (for he the firstborn; and in his defiling his father's bed, the birth-right was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and not to be enrolled for the birthright

My might

But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated, the first-born, to give to him the portion of two in all that shall be found to him; for he is the beginning of his strength; to him is the judgment of the first-born.

And he will strike all the firstborn in Egypt; the first-fruits of their toils in the tents of Ham:

And he will strike every first-born in their land, the first-fruits to all their strength.

General references

Reuben shall live and shall not die; and his men shall be of number.