1. 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.
2. Gather together and listen, O sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.
3. Reuben, my firstborn, you are my strength and the beginning of my sorrow: first in gifts, greater in authority.
4. 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.