Catholic Public Domain Version
"You are being poured out like water, may you not increase. For you climbed onto your father’s bed, and you defiled his resting place. "
— Genesis 49:4, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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.”
“Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. ”
“Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.”
“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!”
“Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and didst defile his couch.”
“But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean.”
“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.”
Then Jacob called his sons, and he said to them: “Gather together, so that I may announce what will happen to you in the last days.
Gather together and listen, O sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.
Reuben, my firstborn, you are my strength and the beginning of my sorrow: first in gifts, greater in authority.
You are being poured out like water, may you not increase. For you climbed onto your father’s bed, and you defiled his resting place.
The brothers Simeon and Levi: vessels of iniquity waging war.
Let not my soul go by their counsel, nor my glory be within their meeting. For in their fury they killed a man, and in their self-will they undermined a wall.
Cursed be their fury, because it was obstinate, and their indignation, because it was harsh. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel.