Genesis 49:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Unstable

James 1:6

2 Peter 2:14

2 Peter 3:16

Thou shalt not excel

Genesis 46:8

Deuteronomy 33:6

Because

1 Corinthians 5:1

General references

Bible References

Unstable

But ask in faith, not doubting anything. For he that doubts is like the wave of the sea which is driven of the wind and is tossed from one side to another.

having their eyes full of adultery, and not knowing how to cease from sin, baiting unstable souls, having their heart exercised in covetous practices; cursed sons,

in almost all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, among which are some things that are hard to understand, which those that are ignorant and unstable twist, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Thou shalt not excel

And these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

Let Reuben live and not die, and let not his men be few.

Because

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 of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

Thou shalt not desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field or his manslave or his maidslave, his ox or his ass or any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Cursed is he that lies with his father's wife because he uncovers his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Now the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; and he was not counted as the firstborn.

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

General references

The nakedness of thy father's wife thou shalt not uncover; it is thy father's nakedness.

And the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, by their generations, after their families, by the houses of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Cursed is he that lies with his father's wife because he uncovers his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Let Reuben live and not die, and let not his men be few.