1. And Jacob called unto his sons, and said: gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the latter days.
2. Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; And hearken unto Israel your father.
3. Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.
4. Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.