1. Jacob called to his sons and said, “Gather yourselves together, so that I may tell you what will befall you in the last days.
2. Gather yourselves together and hear, sons of Jacob,and listen to your father Israel.
3. Reuben, you are my firstborn,my might and the beginning of my strength,the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.
4. Unstable as water, you shall not excel,because you went up to your father’s bed;then you defiled it—he went up to my couch.