Thematic Bible: Commits
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Reuben » commits » Incest
While Israel was living in that land, Reuben had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
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You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father's bed, then you defiled it -- he got on my couch!
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The sons of Reuben, Israel's firstborn -- (Now he was the firstborn, but when he defiled his father's bed, his rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph, Israel's son. So Reuben is not listed as firstborn in the genealogical records.
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