¶ Let Reuben live, and not die; and let [not] his men be few.
"Let Re'uven live and not die out, even though his numbers grow few."
Let Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few.”
Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few.
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Numbers 32:31
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do. -
Numbers 32:32
We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan [may be] ours. -
Genesis 49:8
¶ Judah, thou [art he] whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand [shall be] in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. -
Joshua 22:1
¶ Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, -
Joshua 22:9
And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses. -
Genesis 49:3
Reuben, thou [art] my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: -
Genesis 49:4
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou [it]: he went up to my couch.