Thematic Bible: Commits
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Reuben » commits » Incest
While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine. And Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
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Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it--he went up to my couch!
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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, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son;
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