Gen 49:3-4 | ESV | STEP | Reuben , you are my firstborn , my might , and the firstfruits of my strength , preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power .

Genesis 49:3-4

3 “Reuben, you are ^amy firstborn,
my might, and the ^bfirstfruits of my strength,
preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.
4 Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence,
because you ^cwent up to your father’s bed;
then you defiled it—he went up to my couch!