Learning From OT Greats: Jacob – Wrestling With Purpose

A Father's Path

In the Beginning: A Study in Genesis 37-50

Origins: The Dreamers (Genesis 42–50)

Advent: Catholic Reflections

Year of the Bible: Part Two of Twelve 

The Thread: Part II

Genesis 49:3-4

“Reuben, you are my firstborn;
My might and the beginning of my strength,
Preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.
Uncontrolled as water, you shall not have preeminence,
Because you went up to your father’s bed;
Then you defiled it—he went up to my couch.