Gen 4:7, 49:3, Num 8:16-19, Deu 21:17, 2Ch 21:3, Psa 89:27 | ESV | STEP | If you do well , will you not be accepted ? And if you do not do well , sin is crouching at the door . Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.

j[See ver. 16 above]

k ch. 25:11, 13

lSee ch. 1:53

m Gen. 49:3

n Gen. 25:31, 33; 27:36

oSee ch. 11:5

p Ex. 4:22; [Rom. 8:29; Col. 1:15, 18; Heb. 1:5]

q Num. 24:7; [Rev. 19:16]

Genesis 4:7

7 ^aIf you do well, will you not be accepted? ^{▼▼Hebrew will there not be a lifting up [of your face]?} And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. ^cIts desire is contrary to ^{▼▼Or is toward} you, but you must rule over it.”

Genesis 49:3

3 “Reuben, you are ^emy firstborn,
my might, and the ^ffirstfruits of my strength,
preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.

Numbers 8:16-19

16 For they are ^gwholly given to me from among the people of Israel. ^hInstead of all who open the womb, the firstborn of all the people of Israel, I have taken them for myself. 17 ⁱFor all the firstborn among the people of Israel are mine, both of man and of beast. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them for myself, 18 and I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel. 19 ^jAnd I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the people of Israel, to do the service for the people of Israel at the tent of meeting and ^kto make atonement for the people of Israel, ^lthat there may be no plague among the people of Israel when the people of Israel come near the sanctuary.”

Deuteronomy 21:17

17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is ^mthe firstfruits of his strength. ⁿThe right of the firstborn is his.

2 Chronicles 21:3

3 Their father gave them great gifts of silver, gold, and valuable possessions, together with ^ofortified cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.

Psalms 89:27

27 And I will make him the ^pfirstborn,
^qthe highest of the kings of the earth.