Gen 49:4, 1Sa 13:12-14, 1Ch 5:1 | ESV | STEP | Unstable as water , you shall not have preeminence , because you went up to your father’s bed ; then you defiled it

Genesis 49:4

4 Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence,
because you ^awent up to your father’s bed;
then you defiled it—he went up to my couch!

1 Samuel 13:12-14

12 I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the Lord.’ So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering.” 13 And Samuel said to Saul, ^b“You have done foolishly. ^cYou have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14 But now ^dyour kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man ^eafter his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince ^{▼▼Or leader} over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”

1 Chronicles 5:1

Descendants of Reuben

1 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel ( ^gfor he was the firstborn, but because ^hhe defiled his father’s couch, ⁱhis birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son;