Cross references
Genesis 49:4
Uncontrolled as the waters,
you will no longer excel,
because you went up to your father’s bed,
onto my couch, and defiled it.
Genesis 49:4 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 9 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 35:22 (15 votes) and Deuteronomy 27:20 (11 votes). 31 other verses point back to it. It links with 17 other books, from Genesis 19 to 2 Peter 3.
Which verses does Genesis 49:4 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Genesis 35:2215 votes
While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
- Deuteronomy 27:2011 votes
‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- 1 Chronicles 5:111 votes
These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. Though he was the firstborn, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, because Reuben defiled his father’s bed. So he is not reckoned according to birthright.
- Deuteronomy 33:67 votes
Let Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few.”
- 1 Corinthians 5:16 votes
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
- James 1:6–86 votes
But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. …
- Genesis 46:85 votes
Now these are the names of the sons of Israel (Jacob and his descendants) who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
- Deuteronomy 5:215 votes
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
- 2 Peter 3:164 votes
He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
- 2 Peter 2:143 votes
Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
- Numbers 32:1–421 vote
Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock. So the Gadites and Reubenites came to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the congregation, and said, …
Which verses point to Genesis 49:4?
The 10 strongest of 31.