1 Chronicles 5:1

American Standard Version (1901)

And the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

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  • Gen 29:32 : 32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Because Jehovah hath looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.
  • Gen 35:22 : 22 And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
  • Gen 48:15-22 : 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath fed me all my life long unto this day, 16 the angel who hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. 17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. 18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father; for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head. 19 And his father refused, and said, I know [it], my son, I know [it] ; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. 20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God will be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers. 22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
  • Gen 49:3-4 : 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.
  • 1 Chr 2:1 : 1 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
  • 1 Chr 26:10 : 10 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief, (for though he was not the first-born, yet his father made him chief),
  • 1 Cor 5:1 : 1 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one [of you] hath his father's wife.
  • Col 1:15 : 15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
  • Gen 46:8 : 8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's first-born.
  • Gen 25:23 : 23 And Jehovah said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels: And the one people shall be stronger than the other people; And the elder shall serve the younger.
  • Exod 6:14 : 14 These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.
  • Lev 18:8 : 8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
  • Lev 20:11 : 11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
  • Num 1:5 : 5 And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you. Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.
  • Num 16:1 : 1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men] :
  • Num 26:5 : 5 Reuben, the first-born of Israel; the sons of Reuben: [of] Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;
  • Deut 21:17 : 17 but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.
  • Deut 27:20 : 20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, because he hath uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Josh 14:6 : 6 Then the children of Judah drew nigh unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that Jehovah spake unto Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning thee in Kadesh-barnea.
  • 1 Sam 16:6-9 : 6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely Jehovah's anointed is before him. 7 But Jehovah said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Jehovah seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh on the heart. 8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath Jehovah chosen this. 9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath Jehovah chosen this. 10 And Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Jehovah hath not chosen these. 11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he is keeping the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he come hither.

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  • 1 Chr 5:2-3
    2 verses
    85%

    2For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph's),

    3the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

  • Gen 49:3-4
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    79%

    3Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.

    4Boiling 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.

  • Gen 46:8-9
    2 verses
    79%

    8And these are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's first-born.

    9And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

  • Exod 6:14
    78%

    14These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.

  • Num 26:5
    77%

    5Reuben, the first-born of Israel; the sons of Reuben: [of] Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

  • Gen 35:22-24
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    22And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

    23the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun;

    24the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

  • Num 1:20-21
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    75%

    20And the children of Reuben, Israel's first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

    21those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

  • Exod 1:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):

    2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

    3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

  • 1 Chr 2:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

    2Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

  • Deut 21:16-17
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    72%

    16then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the first-born:

    17but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.

  • Gen 48:17-19
    3 verses
    72%

    17And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.

    18And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father; for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.

    19And his father refused, and said, I know [it], my son, I know [it] ; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

  • Josh 13:15
    72%

    15And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.

  • Matt 1:2
    71%

    2Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judah and his brethren;

  • Deut 25:6
    71%

    6And it shall be, that the first-born that she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother that is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 8:1
    70%

    1And Benjamin begat Bela his first-born, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,

  • Num 26:7
    70%

    7These are the families of the Reubenites; and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.

  • 1 Chr 5:7
    69%

    7And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,

  • Gen 48:5
    69%

    5And now thy two sons, who were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, shall be mine.

  • 1 Chr 1:34-35
    2 verses
    69%

    34And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.

    35The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah.

  • Gen 37:21-22
    2 verses
    69%

    21And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life.

    22And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood; cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him: that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

  • Gen 29:26
    68%

    26And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the first-born.