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3 3 : R E U B E N ’ S
CHAPTER 33:
Reuben’s Sin With
Bilhah. Laws Regarding
Incest. Jacob’s Children
(33:1-23; Cf. Gen. 35:21-27)
A compound
of migdal
‘eder
’ephrth (“the
tower of Eder
of Ephrath”);
cf. Gn. 35:21,
also Test.
Reuben
3:9-15, where
the same
incident is
narrated.
1 And Jacob went and dwelt
to the south of Magdalâdrâ’êf.
And he went to his father
Isaac, he and Leah his wife,
on the new moon of the
tenth month. 2 And Reuben
saw Bilhah, Rachel’s maid,
the concubine of his father,
bathing in water in a secret
place, and he loved her.
3 And he hid himself at night,
and he entered the house
of Bilhah [at night], and he
found her sleeping alone on a
bed in her house. 4 And he lay
with her, and she awoke and
saw, and behold Reuben was
lying with her in the bed, and
she uncovered the border of
her covering and seized him,
and cried out, and discovered
that it was Reuben. 5 And she
was ashamed because of him,
and released her hand from
him, and he fled. 6 And she
lamented because of this thing
exceedingly, and did not tell it
to any one. 7 And when Jacob
returned and sought her, she
said unto him: “I am not
clean for thee, for I have been
defiled as regards thee; for
Reuben hath defiled me, and
S I N
hath lain with me in the night,
and I was asleep, and did not
discover until he uncovered
my skirt and slept with me.”
8 And Jacob was exceedingly
wroth with Reuben because
he had lain with Bilhah,
because he had uncovered
Cf. Dt. 22:30
his father’s skirt. 9 And Jacob
did not approach her again
because Reuben had defiled
her. And as for any man who
uncovereth his father’s skirt
his deed is wicked exceedingly,
for he is abominable before
Yahuah. 10 For this reason
it is written and ordained on
the heavenly tables that a man
should not lie with his father’s
wife, and should not uncover
his father’s skirt, for this is
unclean: they shall surely die Cf. Lv. 20:11
together, the man who lieth
with his father’s wife and the
woman also, for they have
wrought uncleanness on the
earth. 11 And there shall be
nothing unclean before our
Elohim in the nation which
He hath chosen for Himself
as a possession.
12 And again, it is written a
second time: “Cursed he be
who lieth with the wife of his
father, for he hath uncovered
his father’s shame”; and all
the holy ones of Yahuah said
Cf. Dt. 27:20
“So be it; so be it.” 13 And
do thou, Moses, command
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