Therefore it shall be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, that on Mount Ebal you shall set up these stones, which I am commanding you today, and you shall whitewash them with lime.

And it shall be, when Jehovah your God brings you into the land which you are going in to possess, that you shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

And all Israel, with their elders and officers and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the priests, the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, the sojourner as well as he who was born among them. Half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.

And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, Jehovah has surely looked upon my affliction. Now therefore, my husband will love me.

And Rachel said, God has judged my case, and has also heard my voice and given me a son. Therefore she called his name Dan.

And Rachel said, With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed. So she called his name Naphtali.

And Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

And Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power.

Like bubbling water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it; he went up to my couch.