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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Genesis 49:3

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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49:3-4 As firstborn, Reuben was entitled to be head of the family, but because he had the ungoverned impulses of boiling or turbulent waters (35:22), Jacob prophesied that Reuben would fail in leadership (see 37:21-22, 29; 42:22, 37-38; cp. Judg 5:15-16; 1 Chr 5:1-2).
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