These [are] the names of the sons of Israel:

And Leah conceived and bore a son to Jacob; and she called his name Reuben, saying, Because the Lord has looked on my humiliation, and has given me a son, now then my husband will love me.

And these are the names of the sons of Israel that went into Egypt with their father Jacob- Jacob and his sons. The firstborn of Jacob [was] Reuben.

Reuben, you [are] my firstborn, you my strength, and the first of my children, hard to be endured, [hard and] self-willed.

And these are the heads of the houses of their families: the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel [were] Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. These are the families of Reuben.

And these are the names of the men who shall be present with you; of the tribe of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;

And Korah the son of Izhar the son of Kohath the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiron, sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth the son of Reuben, spoke;

Reuben [was] the firstborn of Israel: and the sons of Reuben, Enoch and the family of Hanoch; to Pallu belongs the family of the Palluites.

[ 35:21] And it came to pass when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, the concubine of his father Jacob; and Israel heard, and the thing appeared grievous before him. [ 35:22] Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

You were insolent like water, burst not forth with violence, for you went up to the bed of your father; then you defiled the couch, whereupon you went up.

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.

And if anyone should lie with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness: let them both die the death, they are guilty.

Cursed is he that lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt: and all the people shall say, So be it.

It is actually heard that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the Gentiles--that a man has his father's wife!

And to Hosah of the sons of Merari [there were born] sons, keeping the dominion; though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief of the second division.

And he blessed them and said, The God in whose sight my fathers were well pleasing, [even] Abraham and Isaac, the God who continues to feed me from my youth until this day;

And Joseph, having seen that his father put his right hand on the head of Ephraim- it seemed grievous to him; and Joseph took hold of the hand of his father, to remove it from the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh.

And he would not, but said, I know it, son, I know it; he also shall be a people, and he shall be exalted, but his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die; and God shall be with you, and restore you to the land of your fathers.

But he shall acknowledge the firstborn of the hated one, to give to him double of all things which shall be found by him, because he is the first of his children, and to him belongs the birthright.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,

And the Lord said to her, There are two nations in your womb, and two peoples shall be separated from your body, and one people shall be stronger than the other, and the older shall serve the younger.

And it came to pass when they came in, that he saw Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord's anointed is before Him.

And Jesse called Abinadab, and he passed before Samuel. And he said, Neither has God chosen this one.

And Jesse caused his seven sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said, the Lord has not chosen these.

And the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb the [son] of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know the word that the Lord spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and you in Kadesh Barnea.