Genesis 49:1-4 ▼

1 And Iacob called for his sonnes, and sayde: Come together, that I may tell you what shall come on you in the last dayes.

2 Gather ye together, & heare ye sonnes of Iacob, hearken vnto Israel your father.

3 Ruben my first borne, thou art my myght, & the beginning of my strength, the noblenesse of dignitie, and the noblenesse of power.

4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not be the chiefest, because thou wentest vp to thy fathers bedde: for then defiledst thou my couche with goyng vp.