1 Chronicles 5:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

As to sons of Reuben, first-born of Israel -- for he `is' the first-born, and on account of his profaning the couch of his father hath his birthright been given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, and `he is' not to be reckoned by genealogy for the birthright,

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  • Gen 29:32 : 32 and Leah conceiveth, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Reuben, for she said, `Because Jehovah hath looked on mine affliction; because now doth my husband love me.'
  • Gen 35:22 : 22 and it cometh to pass in Israel's dwelling in that land, that Reuben goeth, and lieth with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heareth.
  • Gen 48:15-22 : 15 And he blesseth Joseph, and saith, `God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked habitually: God who is feeding me from my being unto this day: 16 the Messenger who is redeeming me from all evil doth bless the youths, and my name is called upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and they increase into a multitude in the midst of the land.' 17 And Joseph seeth that his father setteth his right hand on the head of Ephraim, and it is wrong in his eyes, and he supporteth the hand of his father to turn it aside from off the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh; 18 and Joseph saith unto his father, `Not so, my father, for this `is' the first-born; set thy right hand on his head.' 19 And his father refuseth, and saith, `I have known, my son, I have known; he also becometh a people, and he also is great, and yet, his young brother is greater than he, and his seed is the fulness of the nations;' 20 and he blesseth them in that day, saying, `By thee doth Israel bless, saying, God set thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh;' and he setteth Ephraim before Manasseh. 21 And Israel saith unto Joseph, `Lo, I am dying, and God hath been with you, and hath brought you back unto the land of your fathers; 22 and I -- I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I have taken out of the hand of the Amorite by my sword and by my bow.'
  • Gen 49:3-4 : 3 Reuben! my first-born thou, My power, and beginning of my strength, The abundance of exaltation, And the abundance of strength; 4 Unstable as water, thou art not abundant; For thou hast gone up thy father's bed; Then thou hast polluted: My couch he went up!
  • 1 Chr 2:1 : 1 These `are' sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
  • 1 Chr 26:10 : 10 and to Hosah, of the sons of Merari, `are' sons: Shimri the head (though he was not first-born, yet his father setteth him for head),
  • 1 Cor 5:1 : 1 Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --
  • Col 1:15 : 15 who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,
  • Gen 46:8 : 8 And these `are' the names of the sons of Israel who are coming into Egypt: Jacob and his sons, Jacob's first-born, Reuben.
  • Gen 25:23 : 23 And Jehovah saith to her, `Two nations `are' in thy womb, and two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the `one' people than the `other' people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.'
  • Exod 6:14 : 14 These `are' heads of the house of their fathers: Sons of Reuben first-born of Israel `are' Hanoch, and Phallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these `are' families of Reuben.
  • Lev 18:8 : 8 `The nakedness of the wife of thy father thou dost not uncover; it `is' the nakedness of thy father.
  • Lev 20:11 : 11 `And a man who lieth with his father's wife -- the nakedness of his father he hath uncovered -- both of them are certainly put to death; their blood `is' on them.
  • Num 1:5 : 5 `And these `are' the names of the men who stand with you: `For Reuben -- Elizur son of Shedeur.
  • Num 16:1 : 1 And Korah, son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, taketh both Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, sons of Reuben,
  • Num 26:5 : 5 Reuben, first-born of Israel -- sons of Reuben: `of' Hanoch `is' the family of the Hanochite; of Pallu the family of the Palluite;
  • Deut 21:17 : 17 But the first-born, son of the hated one, he doth acknowledge, to give to him a double portion of all that is found with him, for he `is' the beginning of his strength; to him `is' the right of the first-born.
  • Deut 27:20 : 20 `Cursed `is' he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
  • Josh 14:6 : 6 And the sons of Judah come nigh unto Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenezzite saith unto him, `Thou hast known the word that Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses the man of God, concerning me and concerning thee in Kadesh-Barnea:
  • 1 Sam 16:6-9 : 6 And it cometh to pass, in their coming in, that he seeth Eliab, and saith, `Surely, before Jehovah `is' His anointed.' 7 And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for `it is' not as man seeth -- for man looketh at the eyes, and Jehovah looketh at the heart.' 8 And Jesse calleth unto Abinadab, and causeth him to pass by before Samuel; and he saith, `Also on this Jehovah hath not fixed.' 9 And Jesse causeth Shammah to pass by, and he saith, `Also on this Jehovah hath not fixed.' 10 And Jesse causeth seven of his sons to pass by before Samuel, and Samuel saith to Jesse, `Jehovah hath not fixed on these.' 11 And Samuel saith unto Jesse, `Are the young men finished?' and he saith, `Yet hath been left the youngest; and lo, he delighteth himself among the flock;' and Samuel saith unto Jesse, `Send and take him, for we do not turn round till his coming in hither.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Chr 5:2-3
    2 verses
    85%

    2for Judah hath been mighty over his brother, and for leader above him, and the birthright `is' to Joseph.

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

  • Gen 49:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3Reuben! my first-born thou, My power, and beginning of my strength, The abundance of exaltation, And the abundance of strength;

    4Unstable as water, thou art not abundant; For thou hast gone up thy father's bed; Then thou hast polluted: My couch he went up!

  • Gen 46:8-9
    2 verses
    79%

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

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

  • Exod 6:14
    78%

    14These `are' heads of the house of their fathers: Sons of Reuben first-born of Israel `are' Hanoch, and Phallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these `are' families of Reuben.

  • Num 26:5
    77%

    5Reuben, first-born of Israel -- sons of Reuben: `of' Hanoch `is' the family of the Hanochite; of Pallu the family of the Palluite;

  • Gen 35:22-24
    3 verses
    76%

    22and it cometh to pass in Israel's dwelling in that land, that Reuben goeth, and lieth with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heareth.

    23And the sons of Jacob are twelve. Sons of Leah: Jacob's first-born Reuben, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.

    24Sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

  • Num 1:20-21
    2 verses
    75%

    20And the sons of Reuben, Israel's first-born -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, by their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

    21their numbered ones, for the tribe of Reuben, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.

  • Exod 1:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1And these `are' the names of the sons of Israel who are coming into Egypt with Jacob; a man and his household have they come;

    2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

    3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

  • 1 Chr 2:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Deut 21:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16then it hath been, in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he hath, he is not able to declare first-born the son of the loved one, in the face of the son of the hated one -- the first-born.

    17But the first-born, son of the hated one, he doth acknowledge, to give to him a double portion of all that is found with him, for he `is' the beginning of his strength; to him `is' the right of the first-born.

  • Gen 48:17-19
    3 verses
    72%

    17And Joseph seeth that his father setteth his right hand on the head of Ephraim, and it is wrong in his eyes, and he supporteth the hand of his father to turn it aside from off the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh;

    18and Joseph saith unto his father, `Not so, my father, for this `is' the first-born; set thy right hand on his head.'

    19And his father refuseth, and saith, `I have known, my son, I have known; he also becometh a people, and he also is great, and yet, his young brother is greater than he, and his seed is the fulness of the nations;'

  • Josh 13:15
    72%

    15And Moses giveth to the tribe of the sons of Reuben, for 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 hath been, the first-born which she beareth doth rise for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away 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' families of the Reubenite, and their numbered ones are three and forty thousand and seven hundred and thirty.

  • 1 Chr 5:7
    69%

    7And his brethren, by their families, in the genealogy of their generations, `are' heads: Jeiel, and Zechariah,

  • Gen 48:5
    69%

    5`And now, thy two sons, who are born to thee in the land of Egypt, before my coming unto thee to Egypt, mine they `are'; Ephraim and Manasseh, as Reuben and Simeon they are mine;

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

    34And Abraham begetteth Isaac. Sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

    35Sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.

  • Gen 37:21-22
    2 verses
    69%

    21And Reuben heareth, and delivereth him out of their hand, and saith, `Let us not smite the life;'

    22and Reuben saith unto them, `Shed no blood; cast him into this pit which `is' in the wilderness, and put not forth a hand upon him,' -- in order to deliver him out of their hand, to bring him back unto his father.

  • Gen 29:26
    68%

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