1. And Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days:
2. “Gather together and hear, you sons of Jacob,And listen to Israel your father.
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.
5. “Simeon and Levi are brothers;Instruments of cruelty are in their dwelling place.