1 Chronicles 5:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

The sonnes also of Reuben the eldest sonne of Israel (for he was the eldest, but had defiled his fathers bed, therefore his birthright was giuen vnto the sonnes of Ioseph the sonne of Israel, so that the genealogie is not rekoned after his birthright.

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  • Gen 29:32 : 32 And Leah conceiued & bare a sonne, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Because the Lord hath looked vpon my tribulation, now therefore mine husband will loue me.
  • Gen 35:22 : 22 Now, when Israel dwelt in that land, Reuben went, and lay with Bilhah his fathers concubine, and it came to Israels eare; Iaakob had twelue sonnes.
  • Gen 48:15-22 : 15 Also he blessed Ioseph and sayde, The God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Izhak did walke, the God, which hath fed me al my life long vnto this day, blesse thee. 16 The Angel, which hath deliuered me from all euill, blesse the children, and let my name be named vpon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Izhak, that they may growe as fish into a multitude in the middes of the earth. 17 But when Ioseph sawe that his father layde his right hande vpon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he stayed his fathers hand to remooue it from Ephraims head to Manassehs head. 18 And Ioseph sayde vnto his father, Not so, my father, for this is the eldest: put thy right hand vpon his head. 19 But his father refused, & sayd, I know well, my sonne, I know well: he shalbe also a people, and he shalbe great likewise: but his yonger brother shalbe greater then he, and his seede shall be full of nations. 20 So he blessed them that day, and sayde, In thee Israel shall blesse, and say, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh; he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 21 Then Israel said vnto Ioseph, Behold, I die, and God shall be with you, and bring you againe vnto the land of your fathers. 22 Moreouer, I haue giuen vnto thee one portion aboue thy brethren, which I gate out of the hand of the Amorite by my sworde and by my bowe.
  • Gen 49:3-4 : 3 Reuben mine eldest sonne, thou art my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellencie of dignitie, and the excellencie of power: 4 Thou wast light as water: thou shalt not be excellent, because thou wentest vp to thy fathers bed: then diddest thou defile my bed, thy dignitie is gone.
  • 1 Chr 2:1 : 1 These are the sonnes of Israel, Reuben, Simeon, Leui and Iudah, Isshachar, & Zebulun,
  • 1 Chr 26:10 : 10 And of Hosah of the sonnes of Merari, the sonnes were Shuri the chiefe, and (though he was not the eldest, yet his father made him the chiefe)
  • 1 Cor 5:1 : 1 It is heard certainely that there is fornication among you: and such fornication as is not once named among the Gentiles, that one should haue his fathers wife.
  • Col 1:15 : 15 Who is the image of the inuisible God, the first begotten of euery creature.
  • Gen 46:8 : 8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, euen Iaakob and his sonnes: Reuben, Iaakobs first borne.
  • Gen 25:23 : 23 And the Lord sayd to her, Two nations are in thy wombe, and two maner of people shalbe diuided out of thy bowels, and the one people shall be mightier then the other, and the elder shall serue the yonger.
  • Exod 6:14 : 14 These bee the heades of their fathers houses: the sonnes of Reuben the first borne of Israel are Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi: these are ye families of Reuben.
  • Lev 18:8 : 8 The shame of thy fathers wife shalt thou not discouer: for it is thy fathers shame.
  • Lev 20:11 : 11 And the man that lyeth with his fathers wife, because hee hath vncouered his fathers shame, they shall both dye: their blood shalbe vpon them.
  • Num 1:5 : 5 And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you, of the tribe of Reuben, Elizur, the sonne of Shedeur:
  • Num 16:1 : 1 Nowe Korah the sonne of Izhar, the sonne of Kohath, the sonne of Leui went apart with Dathan, and Abiram the sonnes of Eliab, & On the sonne of Peleth, the sonnes of Reuben:
  • Num 26:5 : 5 Reuben the first borne of Israel: the children of Reube were: Hanoch, of whom came the familie of the Hanochites, and of Pallu the familie of the Palluites:
  • Deut 21:17 : 17 But he shall acknowledge the sonne of the hated for the first borne, and giue him double portion of all that he hath: for hee is the first of his strength, and to him belongeth the right of the first borne.
  • Deut 27:20 : 20 Cursed be hee that lyeth with his fathers wife: for he hath vncouered his fathers skirt: And all the people shal say: So be it.
  • Josh 14:6 : 6 Then the children of Iudah came vnto Ioshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh the Kenezite saide vnto him, Thou knowest what the Lord saide vnto Moses the man of God, concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea.
  • 1 Sam 16:6-9 : 6 And when they were come, hee looked on Eliab, and saide, Surely the Lordes Anointed is before him. 7 But the Lord said vnto Samuel, Looke not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature, because I haue refused him: for God seeth not as man seeth: for ma looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord beholdeth the heart. 8 Then Ishai called Abinadab, & made him come before Samuel; he saide, Neither hath the Lord chosen this. 9 Then Ishai made Shammah come; he said, Neither yet hath the Lorde chosen him. 10 Againe Ishai made his seue sonnes to come before Samuel: and Samuel saide vnto Ishai, The Lord hath chosen none of these. 11 Finally, Samuel said vnto Ishai, Are there no more children but these? And hee sayde, There remaineth yet a litle one behinde, that keepeth the sheepe. Then Samuel saide vnto Ishai, Sende and set him: for we will not sit downe, till he be come hither.

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  • 1 Chr 5:2-3
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    2For Iudah preuailed aboue his brethren, and of him came the prince, but the birthright was Iosephs)

    3The sonnes of Reuben the eldest sonne of Israel, were Hanoch & Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.

  • Gen 49:3-4
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    3Reuben mine eldest sonne, thou art my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellencie of dignitie, and the excellencie of power:

    4Thou wast light as water: thou shalt not be excellent, because thou wentest vp to thy fathers bed: then diddest thou defile my bed, thy dignitie is gone.

  • Gen 46:8-9
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    8And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, euen Iaakob and his sonnes: Reuben, Iaakobs first borne.

    9And the sonnes of Reuben: Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

  • Exod 6:14
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    14These bee the heades of their fathers houses: the sonnes of Reuben the first borne of Israel are Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi: these are ye families of Reuben.

  • Num 26:5
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    5Reuben the first borne of Israel: the children of Reube were: Hanoch, of whom came the familie of the Hanochites, and of Pallu the familie of the Palluites:

  • Gen 35:22-24
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    22Now, when Israel dwelt in that land, Reuben went, and lay with Bilhah his fathers concubine, and it came to Israels eare; Iaakob had twelue sonnes.

    23The sonnes of Leah: Reuben Iaakobs eldest sonne, and Simeon, and Leui, and Iudah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.

    24The sonnes of Rahel: Ioseph & Beniamin.

  • Num 1:20-21
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    20So were the sonnes of Reuben Israels eldest sonne by their generations, by their families, and by the houses of their fathers, according to the nomber of their names, man by man euery male from twentie yere olde and aboue, as many as went forth to warre:

    21The nomber of them, I say, of the tribe of Reuben, was sixe and fourtie thousande, and fiue hundreth.

  • Exod 1:1-3
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    1Nowe these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt (euery man and his housholde came thither with Iaakob)

    2Reuben, Simeon, Leui, and Iudah,

    3Issachar, Zebulun, and Beniamin,

  • 1 Chr 2:1-2
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    1These are the sonnes of Israel, Reuben, Simeon, Leui and Iudah, Isshachar, & Zebulun,

    2Dan, Ioseph, and Beniamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

  • Deut 21:16-17
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    16Then when the time commeth, that hee appointeth his sonnes to be heires of that which he hath, he may not make the sonne of the beloued first borne before the sonne of the hated, which is the first borne:

    17But he shall acknowledge the sonne of the hated for the first borne, and giue him double portion of all that he hath: for hee is the first of his strength, and to him belongeth the right of the first borne.

  • Gen 48:17-19
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    17But when Ioseph sawe that his father layde his right hande vpon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he stayed his fathers hand to remooue it from Ephraims head to Manassehs head.

    18And Ioseph sayde vnto his father, Not so, my father, for this is the eldest: put thy right hand vpon his head.

    19But his father refused, & sayd, I know well, my sonne, I know well: he shalbe also a people, and he shalbe great likewise: but his yonger brother shalbe greater then he, and his seede shall be full of nations.

  • Josh 13:15
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    15Moses then gaue vnto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance, according to their families.

  • Matt 1:2
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    2Abraham begate Isaac. And Isaac begate Iacob; Iacob begat Iudas and his brethren.

  • Deut 25:6
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    6And the first borne which she beareth, shall succeede in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 8:1
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    1Beniamin also begate Bela his eldest sonne, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,

  • Num 26:7
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    7These are the families of the Reubenites: & they were in nomber three and fourtie thousand, seuen hundreth and thirtie.

  • 1 Chr 5:7
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    7And when his brethren in their families rekoned the genealogie of their generations, Ieiel and Zechariah were the chiefe,

  • Gen 48:5
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    5And now thy two sonnes, Manasseh & Ephraim, which are borne vnto thee in the lande of Egypt, before I came to thee into Egypt, shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

  • 1 Chr 1:34-35
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    34And Abraham begate Izhak: the sonnes of Izhak, Esau, and Israel.

    35The sonnes of Esau were Eliphaz, Reuel, and Ieush, and Iaalam, and Korah.

  • Gen 37:21-22
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    21But when Reuben heard that, he deliuered him out of their handes, and saide, Let vs not kill him.

    22Also Reuben saide vnto them, Shed not blood, but cast him into this pitte that is in the wildernesse, and lay no hande vpon him. Thus he said, that he might deliuer him out of their hand, and restore him to his father againe.

  • Gen 29:26
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    26And Laban answered, It is not the maner of this place, to giue the yonger before the elder.