Genesis 49:2–3

¹¹Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

¹¹Come yee children, hearken vnto me: I will teach you the feare of the LORD.

⁸My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

⁹For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

⁸My sonne, heare the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

⁹For they shall be ^†an ornament of grace vnto thy head, and chaines about thy necke.

²²Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

^22*Hearken vnto thy father that begate thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

²⁶My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

²⁶My sonne, giue me thine heart, and let thine eyes obserue my wayes.

¹HEAR, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

²For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

³For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

⁴He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

¹¶ Heare, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know vnderstanding.

²For I giue you good doctrine: forsake you not my law.

^3*For I was my fathers sonne, tender and onely beloued in the sight of my mother.

^4*He taught me also, and said vnto me, Let thine heart reteine my wordes: keepe my commandements, and liue.

¹MY son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

¹¶ My sonne, attend vnto my wisedome, and bowe thine eare to my vnderstanding.

²⁰¶ My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

²⁰¶ ^*My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

¹MY son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

¹¶ My sonne, keepe my words, and lay vp my commaundements with thee.

²⁴¶ Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

²⁴¶ Hearken vnto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

³²Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

^32*Nowe therefore hearken vnto me, O yee children: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.

¹⁷But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

¹⁷But hee shall acknowledge the sonne of the hated for the first borne, by giuing him a double portion of all ^†that hee hath: for hee is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first borne is his.

⁵¹And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

^51*And smote all the first borne in Egypt: the chiefe of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

³²And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.

³²And Leah conceiued and bare a sonne, and shee called his name ^†Reuben: for she said, Surely, the LORD hath looked vpon my affliction; now therefore my husband will loue me.

³⁶He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.

^36*Hee smote also all the first borne in their land: the chiefe of all their strength.

¹THESE are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

¹¶ These are the sonnes of ^‖Israel: ^*Reuben, Simeon, Leui, and Iudah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

¹NOW the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

¹¶ Now the sonnes of Reuben the first borne of Israel, (for ^*hee was the first borne, but, forasmuch as he defiled his fathers bed, his birthright was giuen vnto the sonnes of Ioseph the sonne of Israel: and the genealogie is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

³The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

³The ^*sonnes, I say, of Reuben the first borne of Israel were: Hanoch, and Pallu, Ezron, and Carmi.

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

¹⁸And Ioseph saide vnto his father, Not so my father: for this is the first borne; put thy right hand vpon his head.

²⁰And the children of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 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;

²⁰And the children of Reuben Israels eldest sonne, by their generations after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polle, euery male from twenty yeeres old and vpward, all that were able to go forth to warre:

⁸¶ And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.

⁸¶ And ^*these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Iacob and his sonnes: ^*Reuben Iacobs first borne;

⁵¶ Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:

⁵¶ ^*Reuben the eldest sonne of Israel: the children of Reuben, Hanoch, of whom commeth the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu the family of the Palluites: