Genesis 49:2-4

Common English Bible

² Assemble yourselves and listen, sons of Jacob;
        listen to Israel your father.
³ Reuben, you are my oldest son,
    my strength and my first contender,^[a]
    superior in status and superior in might.
⁴ As wild as the waters, you won’t endure,
    for you went up to your father’s bed,
    you went up^[b] and violated my couch.