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On his deathbed, Jacob declares that Reuben "will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father's bed, onto my couch and defiled it" in 49:4. Reuben's behaviour angered Jacob to the extent that he gave Reuben's birthright (as firstborn) to Joseph: a comment within 1 Chronicles 5:1 makes the same point.
However, Reuben, Leah's eldest, felt that this move slighted his mother, who was also a primary wife, and so he moved his mother's bed into Jacob's tent and removed or overturned Bilhah's. This invasion of Jacob's privacy was viewed so gravely that the Bible equates it with adultery, and lost Reuben his first-born right to a double inheritance ...
In both the parashah and the haftarah, the leaders brought up unpleasant slights that haunted them to their last days: Jacob brought up that his son Reuben defiled Jacob's bed [172] and that his sons Simeon and Levi slew men and beast in their anger; [173] David brought up that his nephew Joab killed Abner and Amasa [174] and that Shemei ...
The report of Genesis 35:22 that Reuben lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it, is echoed in Genesis 49:4, when Jacob recalled the incident and deprived Reuben of the blessing of the firstborn, because he went up on Jacob's bed and defiled it.
Jacob's firstborn son Reuben had sex with his father's concubine Bilhah. [10] Judah, Jacob's fourth son, mistook his daughter-in-law Tamar for a prostitute while she was veiled, and had sex with her. [11] Amram married his paternal aunt Jochebed, the mother of Miriam, Aaron, and Moses. [12] However, according to the Septuagint, she was his ...
Once Felix has gone to bed, Oliver climbs into the tub and begins to lap up the remainder of the semen and bathwater circling the drain in a moment that will have half the audience wincing and the ...
But fans didn't want to see Pee-wee's playhouse abandoned forever. In the weeks after Reubens's arrest, "Free Pee-wee" rallies were held in Los Angeles and New York, and Reubens's celebrity pals ...
Actor Gloria Reuben, who toured with the late Tina Turner for a year, shares what she learned from the legendary signer and what she wants to pass on. Gloria Reuben went from 'ER' star to Tina ...