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NASB					Gen 49:3 ¶ "Reuben⁷²⁰⁵, you are my firstborn¹⁰⁶⁰; My might^3581b and ^Athe beginning⁷²²⁵ of my strength²⁰², ¹Preeminent^3499a in dignity⁷⁶¹³ and ¹preeminent^3499a in power⁵⁷⁹⁴.
AMPLIFIED 2015					Gen 49:3 ¶ "Reuben, you are my ¹firstborn; My might, the beginning of my strength and vigor, Preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power [that should have been your birthright].

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Lit preeminence

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Reuben was the eldest of Jacob's twelve sons and therefore entitled to the birthright, which would make him successor to his father as head of the family or tribe, and inheritor of a double portion of his father's estate. But Reuben forfeited all this by his conduct with Bilhah, his father's concubine (35:22). By adopting Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, and giving each of them a portion of the inheritance, Jacob virtually gave Joseph the extra portion of the land that would have gone to Reuben. Judah became the tribal leader in Reuben's place (49:8-10).

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Deut 21:17 "But he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength; to him belongs the right of the firstborn.

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202

on (20b); from an unused word; vigor, wealth:--maturity(1), might(2), power(1), strength(3), strong men(1), vigor(1), vigorous(1), virility(1), wealth(2).

1060

bekor (114a); from 1069; first-born:--firstborn(118), firstlings(1), most(1), oldest(3).

3499a

yether (451d); from 3498; remainder, excess, preeminence:--abundance(2), exceedingly(1), excellent(1), fully*(1), leave(1), left(3), more*(1), preeminent(2), remainder(5), remained*(1), remaining(1), remnant(5), rest(71), what(3).

3581b

koach (470c); from an unused word; strength, power:--ability(3), able(1), able*(2), force(1), fruit(1), might(4), mightily(1), mighty(1), power(40), powerful(1), powerless*(1), strength(65), strong(1), wealth(1).

5794

az (738c); from 5810; strong, mighty, fierce:--fierce(2), fierce men(1), greedy*(1), insolent*(1), mighty(2), power(1), raging(1), roughly(1), strong(10), strong ones(1), stronger(1).

7205

Reuben (910a); from 7200 and 1121; "behold a son!" oldest son of Jacob, also his desc.:--Reuben(72).

7225

reshith (912a); from 7218; beginning, chief:--beginning(19), choice(2), choicest(3), finest(2), first(16), first fruits(7), foremost(2).

7613

seeth (673b); from 5375; exaltation, dignity, swelling, uprising:--authority(1), dignity(1), high position(1), lifted(1), majesty(2), raises(1), swelling(7).

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